CVE-2022-0840

Easy Social Icons <= 3.2.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

mediumImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

5.5

CVSS Score

5.5

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

3.2.1

Patched in

673d

Time to patch

Description

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<3.2.1

PublishedMarch 21, 2022

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected plugineasy-social-icons

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c59871cc-2d62-4eea-a78b-19810570c47d?source=api-prod

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