PT-2022-9456 · WordPress · Social Sharing Plugin

Paul J. Martinez · Published 2022-03-28 · Updated 2022-04-04 · CVE-2021-24746

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Social Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin versions prior to 3.3.40

Description The issue is related to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting problem. It occurs when the "Enable 'More' icon" option is enabled, which is the default setting. The problem arises because the viewed post URL is not properly escaped before being outputted back in onclick attributes.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.3.40, update to version 3.3.40 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-24746

Affected Products

Social Sharing Plugin

References · 3

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/99f4fb32-e312-4059-adaf-f4cbaa92d4fa · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24746 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24746 · Security Note