CVE-2023-4842: Warfareplugins Social Warfare

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social_warfare' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 4.4.3 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.

Affected products

• Warfareplugins Social Warfare: up to and including 4.4.3

Published 2023-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.