Simple Social Media Share Buttons <= 3.2.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24656
CVSS Medium (4.8)
Publicly Published September 13, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Asif Nawaz Minhas
Description

The Simple Social Media Share Buttons WordPress plugin before 3.2.4 does not escape the Share Title settings before outputting it in the frontend pages or posts (depending on the settings used), allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-social-buttons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.2.3
Patched Version
  • 3.2.4
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