vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: easy-social-icons: CVE-2022-0840: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Mar 21, 2022 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 21, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026
Description
The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Solution
easy-social-icons-plugin-cve-2022-0840
References
Rapid7 Labs
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