WP Social Sharing <= 2.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS

published 2023-01-02 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-51559

cvss: 4.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits: 0; none known

The WP Social Sharing WordPress plugin through 2.2 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).

Patch / fix

distros 1

OpenImageIO openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.4.5.0-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12477-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-4198 updated 2025-11-21

OpenImageIO: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-10)

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba372400-96f7-45a9-9e89-5984ecc4d1e2 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA	3.1	4.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Unknown WP Social Sharing

Classification

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

wpscan.com /vulnerability/ba372400-96f7-45a9-9e89-5984ecc4d1e2
exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description, third-party-advisory
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202305-33

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-4198
NVD CVE-2022-4198

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary