Add Social Share Buttons for Whatsapp and Viber < 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2018-11632
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published May 30, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher ThreatPress
Description

An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Add Social Share Messenger Buttons Whatsapp and Viber plugin 1.0.8 for WordPress. If an admin user can be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker (via spear phishing/social engineering), the attacker can change the plugin settings via wp-admin/admin-post.php CSRF. There's no nonce or capability check in the whatsapp_share_setting_add_update() function.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug add-social-share-buttons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1
Patched Version
  • 1.1
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