CVE-2024-10362: Social Media Share Buttons < 2.9.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.9.1 does not sanitize and escape some of its settings, which could allow high-privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons: before 2.9.1 — fixed in 2.9.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 2.9.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/701f653b-a0c3-49b4-972e-f26c3633ad92/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/701f653b-a0c3-49b4-972e-f26c3633ad92/

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