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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-1959
CVE-2024-1959:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-1959) affecting all versions up to and including 4.4.6.1. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'socialWarfare' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes in the 'socialWarfare' shortcode. This security flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. The injected scripts execute whenever a user accesses the affected page. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (Wordfence).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to inject malicious web scripts that execute in users' browsers when they visit the compromised pages. This could lead to various attacks including cookie theft, session hijacking, or other client-side attacks (NVD).
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