The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 does not escape the post title before outputting it in an inline JavaScript event handler, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which are triggered when a visitor interacts with the affected button.
Exploitation requires the Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 to be running a non-default icon display configuration.

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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:30:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-79

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:15:00 +0000

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Description The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 does not escape the post title before outputting it in an inline JavaScript event handler, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which are triggered when a visitor interacts with the affected button. Exploitation requires the Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 to be running a non-default icon display configuration.
Title Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons < 3.0.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Post Title
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-02T10:45:58.147Z

Reserved: 2026-08-13T11:54:12.285Z

Link: CVE-2026-19719

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-02T10:13:01.176Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-02T06:17:17.037

Modified: 2026-09-02T11:17:19.860

Link: CVE-2026-19719

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-02T13:30:05Z

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