CVE-2023-4842
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
07/11/2023
Last modified:
14/11/2023
Description
The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social_warfare' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:warfareplugins:social_warfare:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 4.4.3 (including) |
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/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L304
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L877
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2982662/social-warfare#file0
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5b9aff-0833-4887-ae59-df5bc88c7f91?source=cve



