What is CVE-2024-2159?

CVE-2024-2159 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Heateor Sassy_social_share, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-04-26.

How severe is CVE-2024-2159?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-2159 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Heateor Sassy_social_share

CVE-2024-2159

The Social Sharing Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.3.61 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor r…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (37.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Heateor Sassy_social_share
Unknown Social Sharing Plugin — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-2159?: CVE-2024-2159 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Heateor Sassy_social_share, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-04-26.
How severe is CVE-2024-2159?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-2159 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.