heateor Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.3 on WordPress heateor_sss_sharing_count urls cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in heateor Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.3 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects the function heateor_sss_sharing_count. The manipulation of the argument urls results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2022-4971. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in heateor Social Sharing Plugin up to 3.3.3 on WordPress. Affected is the function heateor_sss_sharing_count. The manipulation of the argument urls 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. CVE summarizes:

The Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'urls' parameter called via the 'heateor_sss_sharing_count' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 3.3.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The weakness was disclosed by Nicholas Mun. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-4971 since 10/15/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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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• WordPress Plugin

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• heateor

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• Social Sharing Plugin

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• 3.3.0
• 3.3.1
• 3.3.2
• 3.3.3

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