CVE-2022-4971

Sassy Social Share vulnerability

CVSS

6.1

EPSS

15.8%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

The Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'urls' parameter called via the 'heateor_sss_sharing_count' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 3.3.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected vendor

Heateor

Affected product

Sassy Social Share

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Published

2024-10-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 15.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-4971

Confirm whether Heateor Sassy Social Share is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-4971.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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