PT-2023-14559 · WordPress · The Social Share

Lana Codes · Published 2023-01-16 · Updated 2025-04-08 · CVE-2022-4484

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin WordPress plugin versions prior to 7.13.44

Description The issue concerns a lack of validation and escaping of certain shortcode attributes, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. These attacks could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Recommendations For versions prior to 7.13.44, update to version 7.13.44 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of shortcode attributes to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4484

Affected Products

The Social Share

References · 6

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/91252899-029d-49be-859e-7d2c4a70efea · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4484 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/56542 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/118360 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/42109 · Telegram Post