WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Easy Social Icons < 4.0.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Icon Color Settings

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape some of its settings before outputting them on front-end pages, which could allow high-privilege users such as Administrators to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, for example on a multisite network.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.0.3

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Submitter
Dmitrii Ignatyev
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-03 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-03 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-03 (about 1 day ago)

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