CVE-2022-4198

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2022-4198 · Published 02/01/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-4198 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting wp social sharing (wp social sharing project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.63%, higher than 50.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wp social sharing wp_social_sharing_project	`≤ 2.2`	No fix yet

Description

The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-33
wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba372400-96f7-45a9-9e89-5984ecc4d1e2 · Exploit

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