What is CVE-2024-3984?

CVE-2024-3984 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Embedsocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews And Galleries, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-19.

How severe is CVE-2024-3984?

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

XSS in Embedsocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews And Galleries

CVE-2024-3984

The EmbedSocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews and Galleries plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'embedsocial_reviews' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.29 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (25.6th 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

Embedsocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews And Galleries — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3984?: CVE-2024-3984 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Embedsocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews And Galleries, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-19.
How severe is CVE-2024-3984?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.