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CVE-2022-0874: WP Social Buttons <= 2.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Social Buttons WordPress plugin through 2.1 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Affected products

• WP Social Buttons: through 2.1

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/36cdd130-9bb7-4274-bac6-07d00008d810
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/36cdd130-9bb7-4274-bac6-07d00008d810

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