Description
The Reaction Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Published: 2025-02-18
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-4836 The Reaction Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
History

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Jakob42
Jakob42 reaction Buttons
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:jakob42:reaction_buttons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Jakob42
Jakob42 reaction Buttons

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Reaction Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Title Reaction Buttons <= 2.1.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Jakob42 Reaction Buttons
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:11:57.041Z

Reserved: 2025-02-07T23:10:16.362Z

Link: CVE-2024-13848

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-02-18T15:42:06.189Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-02-18T05:15:19.157

Modified: 2026-06-17T07:02:50.387

Link: CVE-2024-13848

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No data.

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Weaknesses