CVE-2021-24612

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2021-24612 · Published 18/10/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-24612 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting sociable (sociable project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.64%, higher than 51.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sociable sociable_project	`≤ 4.3.4.1`	No fix yet

Description

The Sociable WordPress plugin through 4.3.4.1 does not sanitise or escape some of its settings before outputting them in the admins dashboard, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/12f1ed97-d392-449d-b25c-42d241693888 · Exploit

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