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CVE-2024-2118: Social Media Share Buttons < 2.8.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via settings

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 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: 2024-04-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise 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 2.8.9 — fixed in 2.8.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 2.8.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/

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