CVE-2016-10736

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The "Social Pug - Easy Social Share Buttons" plugin before 1.2.6 for WordPress allows XSS via the wp-admin/admin.php?page=dpsp-toolkit dpsp_message_class parameter.

Affected products

Devpups Social Pug: before 1.2.6 — fixed in 1.2.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Devpups Social Pug 1.2.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://advisories.dxw.com/advisories/reflected-xss-in-social-pug-easy-social-share-buttons-could-allow-an-attacker-to-do-almost-anything-an-admin-user-can/
https://advisories.dxw.com/advisories/reflected-xss-in-social-pug-easy-social-share-buttons-could-allow-an-attacker-to-do-almost-anything-an-admin-user-can/

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