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Social Sharing Plugin vulnerabilities
Social Sharing Plugin has 7 known vulnerabilities in this database. The most recent published record is dated 7 Jun 2025.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 7
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- Latest version
- 3.3.79
- Last updated
- 15 Sep 2025
- Most recent
- 7 Jun 2025
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-2025-5528 | Medium 6.1 | Before 3.3.76 | Fixed in 3.3.76 | 7 Jun 2025 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2024-11252 | Medium 6.1 | Before 3.3.70 | Fixed in 3.3.70 | 30 Nov 2024 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2022-4971 | Medium 6.1 | Up to 3.3.3 | Fixed in a later version (latest 3.3.79) | 16 Oct 2024 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2024-1989 | Medium 6.4 | Before 3.3.59 | Fixed in 3.3.59 | 6 Mar 2024 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2024-1448 | Medium 6.4 | Up to 3.3.56 | Fixed in a later version (latest 3.3.79) | 29 Feb 2024 |
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2022-4451 | Medium 5.4 | Before 3.3.45 | Fixed in 3.3.45 | 16 Jan 2023 |
| PHP object injection CVE-2021-39321 | High 8.8 | Not yet published | Check for an update | 21 Oct 2021 |
Read the published descriptions
- CVE-2025-5528, 7 Jun 2025
- 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, 3.3.75 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it 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. CVE record
- CVE-2024-11252, 30 Nov 2024
- 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 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. CVE record
- CVE-2022-4971, 16 Oct 2024
- The Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'urls' parameter called via the 'heateor_sss_sharing_count' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 3.3.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it 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. CVE record
- CVE-2024-1989, 6 Mar 2024
- The Social Sharing Plugin - Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'Sassy_Social_Share' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.58 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as 'url'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE record
- CVE-2024-1448, 29 Feb 2024
- The Social Sharing Plugin - Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.56 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE record
- CVE-2022-4451, 16 Jan 2023
- The Social Sharing WordPress plugin before 3.3.45 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins. CVE record
- CVE-2021-39321, 21 Oct 2021
- Version 3.3.23 of the Sassy Social Share WordPress plugin is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection via the wp_ajax_heateor_sss_import_config AJAX action due to deserialization of unvalidated user supplied inputs via the import_config function found in the ~/admin/class-sassy-social-share-admin.php file. This can be exploited by underprivileged authenticated users due to a missing capability check on the import_config function. CVE record
What to do if you run Social Sharing Plugin
If you run Social Sharing Plugin, 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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