CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-5602

8.8 HIGH Published 2023-10-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-352

Description

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions corresponding to AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected configurations

• ultimatelysocial social media share buttons \& social sharing icons (<= 2.8.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness

References