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Medium · 6.4 Public exploit CVE-2023-4842 EUVD-2023-54683GHSA-mfxr-7r69-92fv

Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare <= 4.4.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Published Nov 7, 2023 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Vendor: Warfare Plugins Product: Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Category: Web / CMS

Description

The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social_warfare' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare ≤ 4.4.3 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • B4ntGrim/Vuln_Exploitation_MegaQuagga_Pentest ★ 0 · Apr 30, 2026

    Penetration test report for MegaQuagga Publishing documenting a six-phase engagement that chained CVE-2019-9978 and CVE-2023-4842 to achieve unauthenticated Remote Code Execution and a persistent Met…

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