Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 12, 2026· Updated May 12, 2026
CVE-2026-7659
CVE-2026-7659
Description
The Advanced Social Media Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the social shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Affected products
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=1.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-social-media-icons/tags/1.2/functions.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-social-media-icons/trunk/functions.phpnvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-social-media-icons/nvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/999c2207-6d45-4b46-8fe1-03682a949c5cnvd
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