CVE-2026-12042
The WP2Social Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.12 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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 4.4
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.21%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 10
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK
Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.
- Explotación
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Applicationinitial access70 % - Impacto principal
T1059.007JavaScriptexecution75 %
XSS almacenado en ajustes (CWE-79) en plugin WordPress requiere acceso autenticado de admin (AV:N, PR:H) permitiendo inyección de scripts persistentes. Explotación de aplicación web expuesta (T1190) con ejecución de código cliente (T1059.007) y XSS como mecanismo de distribución (T1189).
Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.
🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-79
Referencias
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/ajax-actions.php#L39
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/ajax-actions.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.11/admin/settings.php#L534
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/ajax-actions.php#L39
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/ajax-actions.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-auto-publish/tags/2.4.12/admin/settings.php#L534
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3650775%40facebook-auto-publish&new=3650775%40facebook-auto-publish
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0886893-9cfd-44cb-8940-03dd99d4c574?source=cve
JSON original (NVD)
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