CVE-2025-9849
The Html Social share buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'zm_sh_btn' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.16 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Html Social share buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'zm_sh_btn' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.16 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.24% probability · 15th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://github.com/alimuzzaman/html-social-share-buttons/blob/a614c9ce5731417edcf01747eacd814c754cc2d4/html-social-share.php#L307
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html-social-share-buttons/trunk/html-social-share.php#L304
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3355844%40html-social-share-buttons&new=3355844%40html-social-share-buttons&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file4
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d11217ec-55a6-4422-9995-4cc1761d430e?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.