What is CVE-2024-1959?

CVE-2024-1959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Warfare, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-02.

How severe is CVE-2024-1959?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-1959 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Warfare

CVE-2024-1959

The Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'socialWarfare' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (34.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Warfare — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1959?: CVE-2024-1959 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Warfare, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-02.
How severe is CVE-2024-1959?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-1959 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.