CVE-2024-2118 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00146.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Inisev Subscribe	Social Media Share Buttons \& Social Sharing Icons Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:inisev:social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

No data.

No data.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/

History

Thu, 08 May 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Inisev Inisev social Media Share Buttons \& Social Sharing Icons
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:inisev:social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Inisev Inisev social Media Share Buttons \& Social Sharing Icons

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 0.0, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}`

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-04-17T05:00:02.917Z

Updated: 2024-11-22T14:13:23.709Z

Reserved: 2024-03-01T20:35:16.578Z

Link: CVE-2024-2118

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:03:39.004Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-17T05:15:48.693

Modified: 2025-05-08T20:32:59.063

Link: CVE-2024-2118

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.1", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2024-2118", "assignerOrgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "WPScan", "dateReserved": "2024-03-01T20:35:16.578Z", "datePublished": "2024-04-17T05:00:02.917Z", "dateUpdated": "2024-11-22T14:13:23.709Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81", "shortName": "WPScan", "dateUpdated": "2024-04-17T05:00:02.917Z"}, "title": "Social Media Share Buttons < 2.8.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via settings", "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"description": "CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)", "lang": "en", "type": "CWE"}]}], "affected": [{"vendor": "Unknown", "product": "Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons", "versions": [{"status": "affected", "versionType": "semver", "version": "0", "lessThan": "2.8.9"}], "defaultStatus": "unaffected"}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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)"}], "references": [{"url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/", "tags": ["exploit", "vdb-entry", "technical-description"]}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Dmitrii Ignatyev", "type": "finder"}, {"lang": "en", "value": "WPScan", "type": "coordinator"}], "source": {"discovery": "EXTERNAL"}, "x_generator": {"engine": "WPScan CVE Generator"}}, "adp": [{"metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"scope": "CHANGED", "version": "3.1", "baseScore": 5.9, "attackVector": "NETWORK", "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L", "integrityImpact": "LOW", "userInteraction": "REQUIRED", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "availabilityImpact": "LOW", "privilegesRequired": "HIGH", "confidentialityImpact": "LOW"}}, {"other": {"type": "ssvc", "content": {"timestamp": "2024-04-22T19:56:02.607929Z", "id": "CVE-2024-2118", "options": [{"Exploitation": "none"}, {"Automatable": "no"}, {"Technical Impact": "partial"}], "role": "CISA Coordinator", "version": "2.0.3"}}}], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2024-11-22T14:13:23.709Z"}}, {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "shortName": "CVE", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-01T19:03:39.004Z"}, "title": "CVE Program Container", "references": [{"url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/", "tags": ["exploit", "vdb-entry", "technical-description", "x_transferred"]}]}]}}

{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "containers": {"adp": [{"title": "CVE Program Container", "references": [{"url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/", "tags": ["exploit", "vdb-entry", "technical-description", "x_transferred"]}], "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108", "shortName": "CVE", "dateUpdated": "2024-08-01T19:03:39.004Z"}}, {"title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"scope": "CHANGED", "version": "3.1", "baseScore": 5.9, "attackVector": "NETWORK", "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L", "integrityImpact": "LOW", "userInteraction": "REQUIRED", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "availabilityImpact": "LOW", "privilegesRequired": "HIGH", "confidentialityImpact": "LOW"}}, {"other": {"type": "ssvc", "content": {"id": "CVE-2024-2118", "role": "CISA Coordinator", "options": [{"Exploitation": "none"}, {"Automatable": "no"}, {"Technical Impact": "partial"}], "version": "2.0.3", "timestamp": "2024-04-22T19:56:02.607929Z"}}}], "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2024-04-22T19:55:59.387Z"}}], "cna": {"title": "Social Media Share Buttons < 2.8.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via settings", "source": {"discovery": "EXTERNAL"}, "credits": [{"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Dmitrii Ignatyev"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "coordinator", "value": "WPScan"}], "affected": [{"vendor": "Unknown", "product": "Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons", "versions": [{"status": "affected", "version": "0", "lessThan": "2.8.9", "versionType": "semver"}], "defaultStatus": "unaffected"}], "references": [{"url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/", "tags": ["exploit", "vdb-entry", "technical-description"]}], "x_generator": {"engine": "WPScan CVE Generator"}, "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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)"}], "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "type": "CWE", "description": "CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)"}]}], "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81", "shortName": "WPScan", "dateUpdated": "2024-04-17T05:00:02.917Z"}}}, "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2024-2118", "state": "PUBLISHED", "dateUpdated": "2024-11-22T14:13:23.709Z", "dateReserved": "2024-03-01T20:35:16.578Z", "assignerOrgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81", "datePublished": "2024-04-17T05:00:02.917Z", "assignerShortName": "WPScan"}, "dataVersion": "5.1"}