Social Media Widget 4.0 - Spam Link Injection

Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 9, 2013
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher DANIEL CID
Description

The Social Media Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Spam Link Injection in version 4.0. This is due to a hidden call to an external link which makes it possible for spam to be injected into the affected site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-media-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 4.0 - 4.0
Patched Version
  • 4.0.1
This record contains material that is subject to copyright

Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc.
License: Defiant hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute this software vulnerability information. Any copy of the software vulnerability information you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you include a hyperlink to this vulnerability record and reproduce Defiant's copyright designation and this license in any such copy. License Detail.