CVE-2021-39322

MEDIUM NUCLEI

Easy Social Icons <= 3.0.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via PHP_SELF

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2021-39322 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

The Easy Social Icons plugin <= 3.0.8 for WordPress echoes out the raw value of `$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']` in its main file. On certain configurations including Apache+modPHP this makes it possible to use it to perform a reflected Cross-Site Scripting attack by injecting malicious code in the request path.

Nuclei Templates (1)

WordPress Easy Social Icons Plugin < 3.0.9 - Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMby dhiyaneshDK

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/5e0bf0b6-9809-426b-b1d4-1fb653083b58

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0223
EPSS Percentile 80.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
cybernetikz/easy_social_icons < 3.0.9
Published Sep 02, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026