Simple Social Media Share Buttons: A security weakness
Simple Social Media Share Buttons 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
- Simple Social Media Share Buttons
- Plugin slug
simple-social-buttons- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 27, 2023
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
This CVE was published Nov 27, 2023 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Simple Social Media Share Buttons 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 Simple Social Media Share Buttons WordPress plugin before 5.1.1 leaks password-protected post content to unauthenticated visitors in some meta tags
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N