The Advanced Social Media Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.

Code

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• Plugin source · wordpress.org

Timeline

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1. May 12, 2026 · NIST NVD

   Detected

   The Advanced Social Media Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 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 e

2. Jun 17, 2026 · NIST NVD

   Updated

   The Advanced Social Media Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 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 e

Sources

• CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-7659

  Official CVE identifier

  cve.org
• NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-7659

  The Advanced Social Media Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 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 po

  nvd.nist.gov

References

• Reference · plugins.trac.wordpress.org
• Reference · plugins.trac.wordpress.org
• Reference · wordpress.org
• Reference · wordfence.com