cve/2024/CVE-2024-2118.md

### [CVE-2024-2118](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-2118)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Social%20Media%20Share%20Buttons%20%26%20Social%20Sharing%20Icons&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=0%3C%202.8.9%20&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-79%20Cross-Site%20Scripting%20(XSS)&color=brighgreen)

### Description

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 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)

### POC

#### Reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d53cb9-a5cb-49f5-bcba-295ae6fa44c3/

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.