What is CVE-2024-2118?

CVE-2024-2118 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Inisev Social Media Share Buttons \& Sharing Icons, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2024-04-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-2118?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-2118 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Inisev Social Media Share Buttons \& Sharing Icons

CVE-2024-2118

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)

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (33.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Inisev Social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons
Unknown Social Media Share Buttons & Sharing Icons — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-2118?: CVE-2024-2118 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Inisev Social Media Share Buttons \& Sharing Icons, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2024-04-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-2118?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-2118 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.