# CVE-2022-0840: Easy Social Icons < 3.2.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting in add icon

> High-privileged users can inject arbitrary JavaScript via the image_file field in the Easy Social Icons plugin, bypassing unfiltered_html restrictions.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Apr 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qp34-j2qv-6pv6

## What is CVE-2022-0840?

CVE-2022-0840 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Easy Social Icons, published on 11 Apr 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0840?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cybernetikz Easy Social Icons.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-0840?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0840 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-0840 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0840 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Easy Social Icons

- [CVE-2022-0887](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0887/): Easy Social Icons < 3.1.4 - Admin+ SQL Injection (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2015-2084](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-2084/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2023-48336](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-48336/): WordPress Easy Social Icons Plugin <= 3.2.4 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2021-39322](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-39322/): Easy Social Icons <= 3.0.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0840 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-0840 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Easy Social Icons, published on 11 Apr 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0840 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Easy Social Icons. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0840/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0840/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0840
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0840
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0840

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0840/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.