CVE-2021-24612
The Sociable WordPress plugin through 4.3.4.1 does not sanitise or escape some of its settings before outputting them in the admins dashboard, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users even when the…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.64%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Sociable WordPress plugin through 4.3.4.1 does not sanitise or escape some of its settings before outputting them in the admins dashboard, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.64% probability · 51th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- sociable project/sociable
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
EPSS 0.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/12f1ed97-d392-449d-b25c-42d241693888Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/12f1ed97-d392-449d-b25c-42d241693888Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.