CVE-2023-4842
moderate-risk
Published 2023-11-07
The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social_warfare' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Do I need to act?
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0.15% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.4/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
References (8)
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5b9aff-0833-4887-ae5...
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5b9aff-0833-4887-ae5...
30
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
1/34 · Minimal
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal