Vulnerability CVE-2023-4773


Published: 2023-09-06

Description:
The WordPress Social Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'wordpress_social_login_meta' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-social-login/tags/3.0.4/includes/widgets/wsl.auth.widgets.php#L413
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b987822d-2b1b-4f79-988b-4bd731864b63?source=cve

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