Social Share Buttons for WordPress <= 2.7 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Image Upload & Path Traversal

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-13117
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published January 6, 2025
Last Updated January 14, 2025
Researcher Bob Matyas
Description

The Social Share Buttons for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload images to an arbitrary location.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug share-buttons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7
Patched Version
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