Simple Social Media Share Buttons 2.0.4 - 2.0.21 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (6.3)
Publicly Published February 11, 2019
Last Updated June 17, 2024
Researcher Luka Sikic
Description

The Simple Social Media Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the download(), import(), and download_help() functions in versions 2.0.4 - 2.0.21. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions, such as a subscriber, to update arbitrary options on the site that can be used to register a new administrative user account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-social-buttons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 2.0.4 - 2.0.21
Patched Version
  • 2.0.22
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