CVE-2023-2779Super Socializer < 7.13.52 - Reflected XSS
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 6.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments WordPress plugin before 7.13.52 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits4
Nuclei templates1 template
- Super Socializer < 7.13.52 - Cross-Site Scripting (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-2779.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Super Socializer 7.13.52 - Reflected XSS (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51534webapps, phppublished 20 Jun 2023Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fe9b7696-3b0e-42e2-9dbc-55167605f5c5 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fe9b7696-3b0e-42e2-9dbc-55167605f5c5/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 33 days later
· 33 days later
Published
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.0% · top 6.6% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
Unknown · Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin
- affected < 7.13.52
References
References3
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fe9b7696-3b0e-42e2-9dbc-55167605f5c5 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173053/WordPress-Super-Socializer-7.13.52-Cross-Site-Scripting.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fe9b7696-3b0e-42e2-9dbc-55167605f5c5/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-34237 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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