Easy Social Icons <= 3.0.8 – Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-39322
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 1, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ram - Wordfence

Description

The Easy Social Icons plugin <= 3.0.8 for WordPress echoes out the raw value of `$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']` in its main file. On certain configurations including Apache+modPHP this makes it possible to use it to perform a reflected Cross-Site Scripting attack by injecting malicious code in the request path.

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Vulnerability Details for Easy Social Icons

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug easy-social-icons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.0.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.8
Patched Version
  • 3.0.9

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