CVE-2024-11189 Social Share And Social Locker – ARSocial < 1.4.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admin users can inject malicious scripts via plugin settings, bypassing unfiltered_html restrictions in multisite environments.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-11189?
CVE-2024-11189 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Social Share And Social Locker, published on 15 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Social Share And Social Locker WordPress plugin before 1.4.2 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).
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11189?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Reputeinfosystems Social Share and Social Locker.
How do I fix CVE-2024-11189?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11189 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-11189 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-11189 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7gvw-8492-45cx.