CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-97344

MediumCVSS 6.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 3.2.1 is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Alt Attribute and Arbitrary User Meta Write due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. The attacker must chain two steps: invoking the nonce-only dismiss_ajax_call endpoint to set the xs_social_profile_image meta flag, then setting their display name to a script payload.

Risk Assessment

An authenticated attacker with subscriber-level access or higher can inject arbitrary scripts into pages that execute in the browser of any user visiting the injected page.

Recommendation

Update the Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin to a version newer than 3.2.1 or disable it until a fix is released.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Alt Attribute via Arbitrary User Meta Write in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This requires the attacker to chain two steps: invoking the nonce-only dismiss_ajax_call endpoint (nonce accessible to Subscribers via any wp-admin page) to set the xs_social_profile_image meta flag on their own account, which activates the unescaped img output branch in xs_social_get_avatar, and then setting their display name to a script payload that core's ENT_NOQUOTES handling preserves unescaped.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS