01 Record
CVE-2025-9849
Html Social share buttons <= 2.1.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: Wordfence
CNA base score6.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
02 Description
Html Social share buttons <= 2.1.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.24% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 15.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Deferred. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2025-09-06 01:45Z1 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-04-08 17:25Z6 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-09-02
- Assigning CNA
- Wordfence
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- e7ffd66269be9bc0e3f502fc028dc37216a5a03f759c577ce145454e172bb854
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d11217ec-55a6-4422-9995-4cc1761d430e?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/html-social-share-buttons/trunk/html-social-share.php#L304
- github.comhttps://github.com/alimuzzaman/html-social-share-buttons/blob/a614c9ce5731417edcf01747eacd814c754cc2d4/html-social-share.php#L307
- plugins.trac.wordpress.orghttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3355844%40html-social-share-buttons&new=3355844%40html-social-share-buttons&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file4