CVE-2025-5528 (GCVE-0-2025-5528)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-07 11:17 – Updated: 2025-06-09 16:03
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Title
Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share <= 3.3.75 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'heateor_mastodon_share' Parameter
Summary
The Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the heateor_mastodon_share parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.75 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action, such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
heateor Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share Affected: * , ≤ 3.3.75 (semver)
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Credits
Naveen H N
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