CVE-2022-4451: Sassy Social Share < 3.3.45 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Social Sharing WordPress plugin before 3.3.45 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Affected products

heateor Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share: before 3.3.45 — fixed in 3.3.45

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: heateor Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share 3.3.45. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a28f52a4-fd57-4f46-8983-f34c71ec88d5
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a28f52a4-fd57-4f46-8983-f34c71ec88d5

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