Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts: A security weakness
Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts
- Plugin slug
shareaholic- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 25, 2022
This CVE was published Jul 25, 2022 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts WordPress plugin before 9.7.6 does not have proper authorisation check in one of the AJAX action, available to unauthenticated (in v < 9.7.5) and author+ (in v9.7.5) users, allowing them to call it and retrieve various information such as the list of active plugins, various version like PHP, cURL, WP etc.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N