PT-2023-15726 · WordPress · Social Sharing Toolkit

Lana Codes · Published 2023-01-30 · Updated 2025-03-27 · CVE-2022-4835

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 Social Sharing Toolkit WordPress plugin versions through 2.6

Description The issue concerns a lack of validation and escaping of some 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 Social Sharing Toolkit WordPress plugin versions through 2.6, update to a version that properly validates and escapes shortcode attributes to prevent Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of shortcodes by low-privilege users until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4835

Affected Products

Social Sharing Toolkit

References · 5

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/23c22f46-19a2-4a1a-aaef-0a4007eda031 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4835 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4835 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/116612 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/43730 · Telegram Post