CVE-2024-13610 Simple Social Media Share Buttons < 6.0.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unescaped settings in the Simple Social Media Share Buttons plugin, leading to stored XSS.
- 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-2024-13610?
CVE-2024-13610 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Simple Social Media Share Buttons, published on 15 Apr 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons WordPress plugin before 6.0.0 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-2024-13610?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpbrigade Simple Social Buttons.
How do I fix CVE-2024-13610?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13610 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-2024-13610 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-13610 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Simple Social Media Share Buttons
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jcc3-vmjf-jfhj.