CVE-2024-11252
Published: 30 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-11252 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Heateor Sassy Social Share. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 2.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share for WordPress is affected by a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-11252. The flaw exists in all versions through 3.3.69 and is caused by insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the heateor_mastodon_share parameter, allowing arbitrary script injection. It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.1 and is categorized under CWE-79.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the issue by supplying a crafted value to the vulnerable parameter and tricking an authenticated user into clicking a malicious link. Successful exploitation results in script execution within the victim’s browser session, with impacts limited to low confidentiality and integrity effects under the reported CVSS vector.
The supplied references include direct links to the vulnerable code paths in class-sassy-social-share-public.php and a Wordfence advisory entry, but contain no explicit statements on patch availability or recommended mitigation steps. The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.4416 before settling at 0.3739, indicating moderate and sustained exploitation interest following disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-34060
Vulnerability details
The Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the heateor_mastodon_share parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.69 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it…
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possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.