CVE-2024-1989
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share for WordPress (versions up to 3.3.58) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-1989). The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on March 6, 2024, affecting the plugin's 'SassySocialShare' shortcode functionality (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes such as 'url' in the plugin's 'SassySocialShare' shortcode. 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 with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Website administrators should update to a version newer than 3.3.58 of the Sassy Social Share plugin to address this vulnerability (NVD).

Additional resources


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