# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 3 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hwwg-qpfc-739q

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2026-97344 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97344 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-97344 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97344 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: roxnor Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97344/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97344/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97344
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97344
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-97344

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97344/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.