CVE-2026-97344 Cross-site scripting in Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via avatar alt attributes, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-97344?
CVE-2026-97344 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in roxnor Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter, published on 3 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Alt Attribute via Arbitrary User Meta Write in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the attacker to chain two steps: invoking the nonce-only dismiss_ajax_call endpoint (nonce accessible to Subscribers via any wp-admin page) to set the xs_social_profile_image meta flag on their own account, which activates the unescaped img output branch in xs_social_get_avatar, and then setting their display name to a script payload that core's ENT_NOQUOTES handling preserves unescaped.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-97344?
How do I fix CVE-2026-97344?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-97344 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-2026-97344 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97344 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hwwg-qpfc-739q.