PT-2022-13464 · WordPress · Easy Social Icons

Qerogram · Published 2022-04-11 · Updated 2022-04-15 · CVE-2022-0840

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin versions prior to 3.2.1

Description The issue allows high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript, even when the unfiltered html capability is disallowed, due to improper escaping of the image file field when adding a new social icon.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.2.1, update to version 3.2.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-0840

Affected Products

Easy Social Icons

References · 3

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9da884a9-b4dd-4de0-9afa-722f772cf2df · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0840 · Security Note