CVE-2025-7500: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Ocean Social Sharing plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-7500, discovered and disclosed on August 2, 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 2.2.1 of the plugin. The security flaw exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of social icon titles (NVD).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). The scope is changed (S:C) with low confidentiality (C:L) and integrity (I:L) impacts, and no availability impact (A:N) (NVD).

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page, potentially leading to unauthorized actions, data theft, or session hijacking (NVD).

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.2.2 of the Ocean Social Sharing plugin, released on July 22, 2025. Users are strongly advised to update to this version immediately. The fix addresses the input sanitization and output escaping issues in the social icon titles functionality (Wordfence).