CVE-2024-3167
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
09/04/2024
Last modified:
08/04/2026
Description
The Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘twitter_username’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.2.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:oceanwp:ocean_extra:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 2.2.7 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ocean-extra/tags/2.2.6/includes/widgets/social-share.php#L269
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3066649/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a292579c-9755-4bd4-996c-23d19ca1c197?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ocean-extra/tags/2.2.6/includes/widgets/social-share.php#L269
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3066649/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a292579c-9755-4bd4-996c-23d19ca1c197?source=cve



