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CVE-2022-0840

Easy Social Icons < 3.2.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting in add icon

MEDIUM
4.8
CVSS Score
Published: April 11, 2022 at 02:40 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:21 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorEasy Social Icons

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Severity
MEDIUM4.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Easy Social Icons· Cybernetikzwordpress-plugin
95%
v < 3.2.1
Affected range stops below 3.2.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9da884a9-b4dd-4de0-9afa-722f772cf2df

CVSS

4.8MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-79

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