Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 11, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-0840

Description

The Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin before 3.2.1 does not properly escape the image_file field when adding a new social icon, allowing high privileged users to inject arbitrary javascript even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

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Affected products

WordPress/Easy Social Iconsllm-fuzzy
Range: <3.2.1
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-social-icons
Cybernetikz/Easy Social Iconsv5
Range: 3.2.1

Patches

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/9da884a9-b4dd-4de0-9afa-722f772cf2dfnvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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