CVE-2022-1717
Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar < 4.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS
The Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
The Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
CVE-2022-1717- 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 - CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 Low
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar < 4.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS
The Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
CVE-2022-1717- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2022-24999 No score
The Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
EUVD-2022-24999- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-j4c9-5ppc-wh72
The Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitise and...
The Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar WordPress plugin before 4.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- Record
GHSA-j4c9-5ppc-wh72- 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 - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-1717 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Unknown Custom Share Buttons With Floating Sidebar, published June 20, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.59%, the 48th percentile. No source names a fixed version.