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WordPress Plugin: easy-social-icons: CVE-2022-0887: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 8, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.1.4 does not sanitize the selected_icons attribute to the cnss_widget before using it in an SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection vulnerability.

Solution

easy-social-icons-plugin-cve-2022-0887
Title
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