Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.60 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

6.4
Incorrect Behavior Order: Early Validation
CVE CVE-2024-2159
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 5, 2024
Last Updated April 25, 2024
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev - CleanTalk Inc

Description

The Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.60 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.

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Vulnerability Details for Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sassy-social-share (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.3.61, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.60
Patched Version
  • 3.3.61

Recent vulnerabilities in Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.75 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'heateor_mastodon_share' Parameter CVE-2025-5528 6.1 Naveen H N June 6, 2025
2 Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.73 - Open Redirect CVE-2025-39404 6.1 Affan Ali April 17, 2025
3 Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.69 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via heateor_mastodon_share Parameter CVE-2024-11252 6.1 mikemyers November 29, 2024
4 Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.62 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-4924 4.4 Dmitrii Ignatyev May 22, 2024
5 Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.58 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2024-1989 6.4 Bassem Essam March 5, 2024
6 Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.56 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-1448 6.4 Richard Telleng (stueotue) February 20, 2024
7 Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.44 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-4451 6.4 István Márton December 21, 2022
8 Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-4971 6.1 Nicholas Mun (NRockhouse) November 29, 2022
9 Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.39 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-24746 6.1 Paul J. Martinez March 15, 2022
10 Sassy Social Share 3.3.23 - Object Injection CVE-2021-39321 8.8 Chloe Chamberland October 21, 2021

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