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CVE-2022-2361: The WP Social Chat WordPress plugin before 6.0.5 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

medium Affects wp-social-chat (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The WP Social Chat WordPress plugin before 6.0.5 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Package
wp-social-chat (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<6.0.5
Fixed in
6.0.5
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (50.3th percentile)
Published
2022-08-22
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordwp-social-chat (WordPress plugin) advisories

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