CVE-2024-10551

Summary

CVE-2024-10551 is a vulnerability affecting the Sticky Social Icons plugin for WordPress. The issue lies in the plugin's failure to properly sanitize and escape certain settings, allowing high privilege users, such as admins, to carry out Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. This can occur even when the unfiltered_html capability is disabled, as is often the case in multi-site setups. Attackers can exploit this flaw to inject malicious code into the WordPress site, potentially leading to data theft, unauthorized access, or other malicious activities. Users of the Sticky Social Icons plugin are urged to update to the latest version to mitigate this risk.

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