What is CVE-2026-2501?

CVE-2026-2501 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Waianaeboy702 Ed's Social Share, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2026-03-21.

How severe is CVE-2026-2501?

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

XSS in Waianaeboy702 Ed's Social Share

CVE-2026-2501

The Ed's Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's `social_share` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0. This is 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: 0.002 (9.3th 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

Waianaeboy702 Ed's Social Share — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-2501?: CVE-2026-2501 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Waianaeboy702 Ed's Social Share, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2026-03-21.
How severe is CVE-2026-2501?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.