Sliding Social Icons: Cross-site scripting
Sliding Social Icons is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Sliding Social Icons
- Plugin slug
sliding-social-icons- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 02, 2015
This CVE was published Jan 02, 2015 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Sliding Social Icons to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Sliding Social Icons plugin 1.61 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings via unspecified vectors or (2) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the sc_social_slider_margin parameter in a wpbs_save_settings action in the wpbs_panel page to wp-admin/admin.php.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P