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CVE-2023-4842

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
November 7, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
security@wordfence.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social_warfare' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected WordPress components

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare — Up to and including 4.4.3
  • warfareplugins social_warfare — Up to and including 4.4.3

References

  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L304 Product
  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L877 Product
  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2982662/social-warfare#file0 Patch
  • www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5b9aff-0833-4887-ae59-df5bc88c7f91?source=cve Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record