CVE-2021-24486
Simple Social Media Share Buttons < 3.2.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
- Record
CVE-2021-24486- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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
Simple Social Media Share Buttons < 3.2.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
- Record
CVE-2021-24486- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-11398 No score
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
- Record
EUVD-2021-11398- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5423-6j4f-m963 No score
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2...
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
- Record
GHSA-5423-6j4f-m963- 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-2021-24486 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) in Unknown Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing For Everyone, published August 23, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.62%, the 50th percentile. No source names a fixed version.