🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2023-4889

MEDIUM 6.4

Shareaholic <= 9.7.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Shareaholic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shareaholic' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.7.8 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.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor shareaholic
Product professional social sharing buttons, icons & related posts – shareaholic
Published Nov 15, 2023
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

shareaholic / Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic
0 ≤ 9.7.8

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ff6932c6-f3ec-46a8-a03b-95512eee5bf1?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2995413/shareaholic#file51

Credits

István Márton