CVE-2024-2189 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Social Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM WordPress plugin before 4.2.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its Widget 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 None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00301.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wpzoom	Social Icons Widget

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpzoom:social_icons_widget:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*

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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/b8661fbe-78b9-4d29-90bf-5b68af468eb6/

History

Wed, 21 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Wpzoom Wpzoom social Icons Widget
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:wpzoom:social_icons_widget:::::free:wordpress::
Vendors & Products		Wpzoom Wpzoom social Icons Widget

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-05-21T06:00:01.749Z

Updated: 2024-10-27T15:00:31.058Z

Reserved: 2024-03-05T11:41:40.960Z

Link: CVE-2024-2189

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:03:39.100Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-21T06:15:08.540

Modified: 2025-05-21T19:00:04.263

Link: CVE-2024-2189

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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