WPZOOM Social Icons Widget & Block Plugin up to 4.2.17 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in WPZOOM Social Icons Widget & Block Plugin up to 4.2.17 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-2189. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in WPZOOM Social Icons Widget & Block Plugin up to 4.2.17 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code of the component Setting 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 Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM WordPress plugin before 4.2.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widget settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

The weakness was presented by Dmitrii Ignatyev. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-2189 since 03/05/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. 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 4.2.18 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

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• WPZOOM

Name

• Social Icons Widget & Block Plugin

Version

• 4.2.0
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.2.8
• 4.2.9
• 4.2.10
• 4.2.11
• 4.2.12
• 4.2.13
• 4.2.14
• 4.2.15
• 4.2.16
• 4.2.17

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