CVE-2023-4889

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Shareaholic plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 9.7.8

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the shareaholic shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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.

Recommendations For Shareaholic plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 9.7.8: Update to a version higher than 9.7.8 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the shareaholic shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.