Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.39 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24746
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 15, 2022
Last Updated December 20, 2022
Researcher Paul J. Martinez

Description

The Social Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.3.40 does not escape the viewed post URL before outputting it back in onclick attributes when the "Enable 'More' icon" option is enabled (which is the default setting), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.

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Vulnerability Details for Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sassy-social-share (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.3.40, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 3.3.40
Patched Version
  • 3.3.40

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