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Easy Social Icons vulnerabilities
Easy Social Icons has 4 known vulnerabilities in this database. The most recent published record is dated 11 Apr 2022.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 4
- Active installs
- 20,000+
- Latest version
- 4.0.2
- Last updated
- 9 Nov 2025
- Most recent
- 11 Apr 2022
Find it in your WordPress dashboard under Plugins. Severity is based on the CVSS score published with the CVE where one is available.
| Vulnerability | Severity | Affected | Fix | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2022-0840 | Medium 4.8 | Before 3.2.1 | Fixed in 3.2.1 | 11 Apr 2022 |
| SQL injection CVE-2022-0887 | High 7.2 | Before 3.1.4 | Fixed in 3.1.4 | 4 Apr 2022 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2021-39322 | Medium 6.1 | Before 3.0.9 | Fixed in 3.0.9 | 2 Sep 2021 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2015-2084 | Not scored | Up to 1.2.2 | Fixed in a later version (latest 4.0.2) | 25 Feb 2015 |
Read the published descriptions
- CVE-2022-0840, 11 Apr 2022
- The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. CVE record
- CVE-2022-0887, 4 Apr 2022
- The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.1.4 does not sanitize the selected_icons attribute to the cnss_widget before using it in an SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection vulnerability. CVE record
- CVE-2021-39322, 2 Sep 2021
- The Easy Social Icons plugin <= 3.0.8 for WordPress echoes out the raw value of `$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']` in its main file. On certain configurations including Apache+modPHP this makes it possible to use it to perform a reflected Cross-Site Scripting attack by injecting malicious code in the request path. CVE record
- CVE-2015-2084, 25 Feb 2015
- 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. CVE record
What to do if you run Easy Social Icons
If you run Easy Social Icons, open WordPress and check the installed version in Plugins. Compare it with the affected versions in the vulnerability record. If a fixed version is available, take a current backup and update to that version or the latest supported release.
If no fixed version exists, consider disabling and removing the plugin or replacing it with a maintained alternative. After dealing with the affected software, check administrator users, unexpected file changes, redirects, unfamiliar pages and security logs for signs that the site may already have been altered.
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