CVE-2021-24486

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2021-24486 · Published 23/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-24486 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting simple social media share buttons (wpbrigade).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.62%, higher than 50.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.2.3 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simple social media share buttons wpbrigade	`< 3.2.3`	`3.2.3`

Description

The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/324e6b7b-a2ac-4c08-8b97-0967513f7328 · Exploit

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