Simple Share Buttons Adder <= 4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.1)
Publicly Published June 26, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Duncan Stuart
Description

The Simple Share Buttons Adder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary javascript in the context of the Homepage, Pages, Posts, Category/Archive pages and post Excerpt via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-share-buttons-adder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5
Patched Version
  • 4.5
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