CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-6878
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-01-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-285
Description
The Slick Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'dcssb_ajax_update' function in versions up to, and including, 2.4.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above to update the site options arbitrarily.
Affected configurations
• leechesnutt slick social share buttons (<= 2.4.11)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-social-share-buttons/tags/2.4.11/inc/dcwp_admin.php#L49 Issue Tracking
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79a5c01d-3867-4b1e-b0ba-9a802f0bed92?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-social-share-buttons/tags/2.4.11/inc/dcwp_admin.php#L49 Issue Tracking
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79a5c01d-3867-4b1e-b0ba-9a802f0bed92?source=cve Third Party Advisory