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CVE-2023-4842

The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.4 EPSS 0.00183
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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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Affected Products & Versions

1
warfareplugins social warfare<= 4.4.3
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Scoring & Timeline

6.4
MEDIUM · CVSS v3.1 · security@wordfence.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD07 Nov 2023 · 12:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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References & Sources

4
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L304Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/tags/4.4.1/lib/buttons-panel/SWP_Buttons_Panel_Trait.php#L877Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2982662/social-warfare#file0Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5b9aff-0833-4887-ae59-df5bc88c7f91?source=cveThird Party Advisory
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