Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.62 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.62 on WordPress and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Setting Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-4924. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.62 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part 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 Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.3.63 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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 released by Dmitrii Ignatyev. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-4924 since 05/15/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. 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.

Upgrading to version 3.3.63 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• 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
• 3.3.61
• 3.3.62

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