The Social Media Widget by Acurax plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘acx_si_theme, acx_si_twitter, acx_si_facebook, acx_si_youtube, acx_si_linkedin, acx_si_gplus, acx_si_credi, $acx_si_icon_size, acx_si_display, acx_si_pinterest, acx_si_feed’ parameters in versions up to, and including, 2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
This vulnerability is a high severity with CVSS 7.2 Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the Plugin Social Media Widget by Acurax. It affects Versions before 2.2 and is fixed in 2.2.
the tracked vulnerability is tracked for the Plugin Social Media Widget by Acurax as high severity with CVSS 7.2. The affected range is Versions before 2.2. Update Social Media Widget by Acurax to 2.2 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
| Software Type | Plugin |
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| Software Slug |
acurax-social-media-widget
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | No linked CVE entry. |
| Patched Versions |
2.2
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| Affected Versions |
Versions before 2.2
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Social Media Widget by Acurax <= 3.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Cross-Site Scripting via the recordsArray Parameter
Social Media Widget <= 2.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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