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CVE-2024-2189: Social Icons Widget & Block < 4.2.18 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Social Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM WordPress plugin before 4.2.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widget 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 Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM: before 4.2.18 — fixed in 4.2.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Social Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM 4.2.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b8661fbe-78b9-4d29-90bf-5b68af468eb6/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b8661fbe-78b9-4d29-90bf-5b68af468eb6/

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