Vulnerabilities and security researches foradvanced-social-media-icons advanced-social-media-icons

May 13, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2026-7659
Home page URL: Security reports for Advanced Social Media Icons
Application: Advanced Social Media Icons
Date: May 12, 2026
Research 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.
Affected versions: max 1.2.
Status: vulnerable