Vulnerability in Heator Social Share\, Login And Comments
CVE-2023-2779
The Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments WordPress plugin before 7.13.52 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.
EPSS: 0.060 (92.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
Affected products
- Heator Social_share\,_social_login_and_social_comments
- Unknown Social Share, Login And Comments Plugin — versions 0
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)
- contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-2779?
- CVE-2023-2779 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Heator Social Share\, Login And Comments, classified under CWE-79 CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING (XSS). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-06-19.
- How severe is CVE-2023-2779?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-2779 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.