FKIE_CVE-2021-24612

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-10-18 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:40
Severity
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/12f1ed97-d392-449d-b25c-42d241693888Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/12f1ed97-d392-449d-b25c-42d241693888Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sociable_project sociable *
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  "id": "CVE-2021-24612",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:40:19.630",
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