Description
The Social Sharing Toolkit WordPress plugin through 2.6 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.
Published: 2023-01-30
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-52112 The Social Sharing Toolkit WordPress plugin through 2.6 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.
History

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

Linksalpha Social Sharing Toolkit
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-03-27T20:03:34.273Z

Reserved: 2022-12-29T08:43:12.978Z

Link: CVE-2022-4835

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:55:45.831Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-30T21:15:12.837

Modified: 2025-03-27T20:15:18.847

Link: CVE-2022-4835

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.