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CVE-2024-2118

MEDIUM 5.9 CVSS 3.1
Published
April 17, 2024
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected WordPress components

  • Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons Plugin · ultimate-social-media-icons
    Confirmed match Active
    Before 2.8.9
    View on WordPress.org

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

  • Unknown Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons — Before 2.8.9
  • inisev social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons — Before 2.8.9

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record