Simple Social Media Share Buttons <= 5.1.0 - Unauthenticated Password Protected Post Disclosure

Improper Authentication
CVE CVE-2023-5845
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.0 via meta tags. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve data from password protected posts that may have sensitive information.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-social-buttons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1.0
Patched Version
  • 5.1.1
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