Simple Social Media Share Buttons <= 3.2.2 — Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-24486Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.2.2Update to 3.2.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.4
- CVSS
- 5.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone simple-social-buttons
- Affected≤ 3.2.2
- Patched in3.2.3
Update to 3.2.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.2.2. Version 3.2.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.2.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to apple502j.
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤6.2.0Update to 6.2.1 | CVE-2026-34904 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.4.0Update to 6.0.0 | CVE-2024-13610 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Password Protected Post Disclosure ≤5.1.0Update to 5.1.1 | CVE-2023-5845 | |
| Medium4.8 | Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤3.2.3Update to 3.2.4 | CVE-2021-24656 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤3.2.0Update to 3.2.1 | — |
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- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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