CVE-2024-2118 Social Media Share Buttons < 2.8.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via settings
Admins can inject malicious scripts via plugin settings, enabling stored XSS attacks in multisite environments where unfiltered HTML is disabled.
- 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-2024-2118?
CVE-2024-2118 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons, published on 17 Apr 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 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-2024-2118?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Inisev Social Media Share Buttons \& Social Sharing Icons.
How do I fix CVE-2024-2118?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2118 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-2024-2118 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2118 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vv98-j6p5-8hj3.