CVE-2022-0840

4.8 mediumEPSS 0.6%

Medium (4.8) in cybernetikz easy social icons. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.8 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2022-04-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

cybernetikz:easy_social_icons

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9da884a9-b4dd-4de0-9afa-722f772cf2df
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9da884a9-b4dd-4de0-9afa-722f772cf2df

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