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CVE-2022-4835: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2022-4835 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Social Sharing Toolkit WordPress plugin versions 2.6 and below. The vulnerability was discovered and publicly published on January 3, 2023. The issue affects users with contributor-level permissions or higher (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists because the plugin does not properly validate and escape shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page. This vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 6.8 (medium) and is classified as CWE-79: Cross-Site Scripting. The vulnerability specifically relates to the social_share shortcode functionality within the plugin's Shortcode tab settings (WPScan).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows attackers with contributor-level access to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks that could be used against high-privilege users such as administrators. This could potentially lead to unauthorized actions being performed with administrator privileges (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the vulnerability disclosure, there is no known fix available for this issue in the Social Sharing Toolkit plugin (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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