Easy Social Icons <= 3.2.4 - Missing Authorization via cnss_save_ajax_order

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-33998
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published November 7, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Nguyen Anh Tien
Description

The Easy Social Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the cnss_save_ajax_order function in versions up to, and including, 3.2.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change the order of social icons.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug easy-social-icons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.2.4
Patched Version
  • 3.2.5
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