CVE-2024-10551: sticky social icons vulnerability

The Sticky Social Icons WordPress plugin through 1.2.1 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).
CVE-2024-10551CVSS 4.8CMS

CVE-2024-10551: sticky social icons vulnerability

The Sticky Social Icons WordPress plugin through 1.2.1 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
4.8 MEDIUM
EPSS
22.57%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
sticky social icons

What is known

The Sticky Social Icons WordPress plugin through 1.2.1 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).

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