CVE-2023-2779

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2023-2779 · Published 19/06/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-2779 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting social share, social login and social comments (heator).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.0%, higher than 93.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 7.13.52 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
social share, social login and social comments heator	`< 7.13.52`	`7.13.52`

Description

The Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments WordPress plugin before 7.13.52 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/173053/WordPress-Super-Socializer-7.13.52-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
wpscan.com/vulnerability/fe9b7696-3b0e-42e2-9dbc-55167605f5c5 · Exploit
wpscan.com/vulnerability/fe9b7696-3b0e-42e2-9dbc-55167605f5c5

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