PT-2023-30839 · WordPress · Social Warfare

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-11-07 · Updated 2023-11-14 · CVE-2023-4842

Positive Technologies · (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.4.3

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'social warfare' shortcode, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. These scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 4.4.3, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue in the 'social warfare' shortcode. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'social warfare' shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-4842

Affected Products

Social Warfare

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4842 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2982662/social-warfare#file0 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4842 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L304 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5b9aff-0833-4887-ae59-df5bc88c7f91?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L877 · Note