Social Network Tabs - Social Media API Key Leakage <= 1.7.1 - Information Exposure

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2018-20555
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published January 16, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher fs0c131y
Description

The Design Chemical Social Network Tabs plugin 1.7.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to discover Twitter access_token, access_token_secret, consumer_key, and consumer_secret values by reading the dcwp_twitter.php source code. This leads to Twitter account takeover.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-network-tabs (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.1
Patched Version
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