Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.60 on WordPress Shortcode Attribute cross site scripting

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.60 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the component Shortcode Attribute Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-2159. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.60 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code of the component Shortcode Attribute Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Social Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.3.61 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

The weakness was disclosed by Dmitrii Ignatyev. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-2159 since 03/04/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.3.61 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Social Sharing Plugin

Version

• 3.3.0
• 3.3.1
• 3.3.2
• 3.3.3
• 3.3.4
• 3.3.5
• 3.3.6
• 3.3.7
• 3.3.8
• 3.3.9
• 3.3.10
• 3.3.11
• 3.3.12
• 3.3.13
• 3.3.14
• 3.3.15
• 3.3.16
• 3.3.17
• 3.3.18
• 3.3.19
• 3.3.20
• 3.3.21
• 3.3.22
• 3.3.23
• 3.3.24
• 3.3.25
• 3.3.26
• 3.3.27
• 3.3.28
• 3.3.29
• 3.3.30
• 3.3.31
• 3.3.32
• 3.3.33
• 3.3.34
• 3.3.35
• 3.3.36
• 3.3.37
• 3.3.38
• 3.3.39
• 3.3.40
• 3.3.41
• 3.3.42
• 3.3.43
• 3.3.44
• 3.3.45
• 3.3.46
• 3.3.47
• 3.3.48
• 3.3.49
• 3.3.50
• 3.3.51
• 3.3.52
• 3.3.53
• 3.3.54
• 3.3.55
• 3.3.56
• 3.3.57
• 3.3.58
• 3.3.59
• 3.3.60

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