CVE-2024-0974 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Social Media Widget WordPress plugin before 4.0.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Published: 2024-07-12

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Social Media Widget

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 4.0.9

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:bmwebproperties:social_media_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0033.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7f8e5e63-a928-443e-9771-8b3f51f5eb9e/

History

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Bmwebproperties Bmwebproperties social Media Widget
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:bmwebproperties:social_media_widget::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Bmwebproperties Bmwebproperties social Media Widget

Subscriptions

Bmwebproperties Social Media Widget

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-07-12T06:00:04.368Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:26:30.265Z

Reserved: 2024-01-26T20:53:13.594Z

Link: CVE-2024-0974

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:26:30.265Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-12T06:15:01.977

Modified: 2026-06-17T06:54:40.937

Link: CVE-2024-0974

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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