Sticky Social Media Icons <= 2.0 - Missing Authorization via ajax_request_handle

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-40672
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published August 21, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Nguyen Xuan Chien
Description

The Sticky Social Media Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized settings update due to a missing capability check on the ajax_request_handle function in versions up to, and including, 2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sticky-social-media-icons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0
Patched Version
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