PT-2025-21499 · WordPress · The Simple Share Wordpress Plugin

Published 2025-05-15 · Updated 2025-06-11 · CVE-2024-7556

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: The Simple Share WordPress plugin versions 0.5.3 and earlier

Description: The issue allows high privilege users, such as admins, to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This can occur even when the unfiltered html capability is disallowed, for example in a multisite setup. The problem arises because some settings are not properly sanitised and escaped.

Recommendations: For The Simple Share WordPress plugin versions 0.5.3 and earlier, update to a version that addresses the sanitisation and escaping of settings to prevent Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-7556

Affected Products

The Simple Share Wordpress Plugin

References · 5

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/89ccbe24-be15-4b13-883a-48d6da9c8ffa · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-7556 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7556 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/125400 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1923119333619925268 · Twitter Post