Social Media Follow Buttons Bar Plugin up to 4.73 on WordPress cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Social Media Follow Buttons Bar Plugin up to 4.73 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2021-36839. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Social Media Follow Buttons Bar Plugin up to 4.73 on WordPress (Social Network Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Authenticated (admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Social Media Follow Buttons Bar plugin <= 4.73 at WordPress.

The weakness was disclosed 10/01/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at patchstack.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-36839 since 07/19/2021. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Social Network Software

Name

• Social Media Follow Buttons Bar Plugin

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.19
• 4.20
• 4.21
• 4.22
• 4.23
• 4.24
• 4.25
• 4.26
• 4.27
• 4.28
• 4.29
• 4.30
• 4.31
• 4.32
• 4.33
• 4.34
• 4.35
• 4.36
• 4.37
• 4.38
• 4.39
• 4.40
• 4.41
• 4.42
• 4.43
• 4.44
• 4.45
• 4.46
• 4.47
• 4.48
• 4.49
• 4.50
• 4.51
• 4.52
• 4.53
• 4.54
• 4.55
• 4.56
• 4.57
• 4.58
• 4.59
• 4.60
• 4.61
• 4.62
• 4.63
• 4.64
• 4.65
• 4.66
• 4.67
• 4.68
• 4.69
• 4.70
• 4.71
• 4.72
• 4.73

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