Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin on WordPress. This affects an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-2779. The attack can be launched remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. 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. CVE summarizes:

The Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments WordPress plugin before 7.13.52 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

The weakness was disclosed 06/19/2023. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-2779 since 05/17/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading to version 7.13.52 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (51534). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 2.4
VulDB Temp Score: 2.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin 7.13.52

Timelineinfo

05/17/2023 🔍
06/19/2023 +33 days 🔍
06/19/2023 +0 days 🔍
04/25/2025 +676 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 173053
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-2779 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-2779
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-231932
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 06/19/2023 13:56
Updated: 04/25/2025 12:32
Changes: 06/19/2023 13:56 (39), 07/15/2023 14:26 (1), 07/15/2023 14:31 (11), 12/13/2024 01:39 (27), 12/19/2024 05:43 (10), 04/25/2025 12:32 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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