5.9

CVE-2024-2118: Social Media Share Buttons < 2.8.9 - Admin+ Stored XSS via settings

Analyzed
Published 17-04-2024Last modified 22-11-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-2118 is a medium (CVSS 5.9) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in inisev social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons. EPSS estimates a 0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.9/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.40%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 17-04-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 22-11-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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)

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.40%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

34%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.40% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (wpscan.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Inisev1 product
Unknown1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • ultimate-social-media-icons≤ 2.8.8 (fixed in 2.8.9)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

2 links