Easy Social Icons <= 3.2.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Cross-Site Scripting and Missing Authorization Checks
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.2.1
- Affected Plugin
- Easy Social Icons
- Affected Version
<= 3.2.0- CVSS
- 7.3High
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a high-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.2.0. It carries a CVSS score of 7.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.2.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2022.
Vulnerability Overview
The Easy Social Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Admin+ cross-site scripting and unauthenticated icon deletion in versions up to and including 3.2.0.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Easy Social Icons <= 3.2.0 takes an account at Admin level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Easy Social Icons the fix is 3.2.1: builds <= 3.2.0 are affected, anything from 3.2.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.2.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Easy Social Icons 3.2.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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- 8.8CVE-2015-2084: Easy Social Icons CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2015-2084 - 7.2Easy Social Icons <= 1.2.3.1 SQL Injection
- 6.4CVE-2023-48336: Easy Social Icons <= 3.2.4 Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2023-48336 - 6.1Easy Social Icons <= 3.1.2 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- 6.1Easy Social Icons <= 3.0.9 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- 6.1CVE-2021-39322: Easy Social Icons <= 3.0.8 – Reflected XSS
CVE-2021-39322 - 5.5Easy Social Icons <= 3.1.4 Admin+ Cross-Site Scripting
- 5.5Easy Social Icons <= 3.2.2 Admin+ Cross-Site Scripting
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