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Vulnerability record · CVE-2022-4971 · published 16 October 2024

CVE-2022-4971: Heateor sassy social share cross-site scripting vulnerability

HHeateor · Sassy Social Share

The Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'urls' parameter called via the 'heateor_sss_sharing_count' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 3.3.3 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.

6.1 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 17% · top 3.0% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
6.1CVSS 3.1 base score
17%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References, 1 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The Sassy Social Share plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'urls' parameter called via the 'heateor_sss_sharing_count' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 3.3.3 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.

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4631519b-2060-43a0-b69b-b3d7ed94c705/ ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/85277960-2bba-4cd7-9f4c-e04f6743b96c?source=cve Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2022-4971), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.