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CVE-2024-2159: Sassy Social Share < 3.3.61 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: 2024-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Social Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.3.61 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

• heateor Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share: before 3.3.61 — fixed in 3.3.61

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: heateor Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share 3.3.61. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d7fa9849-c82a-4efd-84b6-9245053975ba/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d7fa9849-c82a-4efd-84b6-9245053975ba/

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