WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Super Socializer < 7.13.30 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the urls parameter in its the_champ_sharing_count AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users) before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Note: Vendor was notified on November 18th, 2021.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
super-socializer
Fixed in 7.13.30

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24987

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.1 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Krzysztof Zając
Submitter
Krzysztof Zając
Submitter website
https://kazet.cc/
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
a14b668f-812f-46ee-827e-0996b378f7f0

Timeline

Publicly Published
2022-03-15 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2022-03-15 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-04-09 (about 3 years ago)

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