CVE-2023-4842

Summary

CVE-2023-4842 is a vulnerability affecting the Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress, specifically in versions up to and including 4.4.3. The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts through the 'social_warfare' shortcode, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting. This can result in the execution of malicious scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page. The affected products include various versions of arpxaj, arpxai, arpxal, arpxak, arpxan, arpxam, and others. The risk score is 25 out of 100, with a base severity of MEDIUM and a base score of 5.4 according to NVD@NIST. Remediation for this vulnerability involves updating the Social Warfare plugin to a version that has addressed the input sanitization and output escaping issues.

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