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1 vulnerability by wp_social_sharing_project
CVE-2022-4198 (GCVE-0-2022-4198)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-02 21:49 – Updated: 2025-04-10 19:07
VLAI
Title
WP Social Sharing <= 2.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba372400-96f7-45… | exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33 |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | WP Social Sharing |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.2
(custom)
|
Credits
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