CVE-2026-97344
CVE-2026-97344 — Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter <= 3.2.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Avatar Alt Attribute via Arbitrary User Meta
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.
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, Wordfence
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
0%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
6.4
MEDIUM
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
No
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Partial
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (1)
Products (1)
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM | — | — | cvelistV5 |
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-79
References
5 on the record
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/40e03292-c2dc-4d34-88f4-0d0631e7b981?source=cve
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/app/avatar.php#L40
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/lib/notice/notice.php#L384
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-social/tags/3.2.1/lib/notice/notice.php#L422
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3720423%40wp-social&new=3720423%40wp-social
reference
Elsewhere on this site
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.