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Easy Social Icons <= 1.2.2 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2015-2084Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.2Update to 1.2.3 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Easy Social Icons easy-social-icons

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.2
  2. Patched in1.2.3

Update to 1.2.3 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.2. Version 1.2.3 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Easy Social Icons.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.3, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Easy Social Icons to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Eric Flokstra - ITsec Security Services.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Easy Social Icons plugin before 1.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the image_file parameter in an edit action in the cnss_social_icon_add page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Easy Social Icons

All 14
More vulnerabilities in Easy Social Icons
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.0.2Update to 4.0.3
CVE-2025-15701
Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.0.2Update to 4.0.3
CVE-2026-105259
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode
≤3.2.4Update to 3.2.5
CVE-2023-48336
Medium4.3Missing Authorization via cnss_save_ajax_order
≤3.2.4Update to 3.2.5
CVE-2023-33998
Medium5.5Admin+ Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.2.2Update to 3.2.3
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Same weakness (CSRF)

All CSRF
Other CSRF vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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