Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter <= 3.0.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Social Login/Share Status Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-1763
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published February 29, 2024
Last Updated March 13, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the /wp_social/v1/ REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enable and disable certain providers for the social share and login features.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-social (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.0
Patched Version
  • 3.0.1
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