CVE-2024-2159 Sassy Social Share < 3.3.61 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

What is CVE-2024-2159?

CVE-2024-2159 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Social Sharing Plugin , published on 26 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Social Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.3.61 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2159?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Heateor Sassy Social Share.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2159?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2159 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-2024-2159 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-2159 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Social Sharing Plugin

• CVE-2021-39321 Sassy Social Share 3.3.23 PHP Object Injection High 8.8
• CVE-2024-1989 Cross-site scripting in Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-1448 Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.56 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium 6.4
• CVE-2025-5528 Cross-site scripting in Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share Medium 6.1
• CVE-2024-11252 Cross-site scripting in Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share Medium 6.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-55jv-x7fj-7mg4.