WordPress plugin
Social Media Widget 4.0 — Spam Link Injection
85290224-a051-4913-83c7-f54f2b67621ePublished · Updated Action summary
Affected: 4.0 – 4.0Update to 4.0.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Social Media Widget social-media-widget
- Affected4.0 – 4.0
- Patched in4.0.1
Update to 4.0.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run 4.0 – 4.0. Version 4.0.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Social Media Widget.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 4.0.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Social Media Widget to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to DANIEL CID.
The Social Media Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Spam Link Injection in version 4.0. This is due to a hidden call to an external link which makes it possible for spam to be injected into the affected site.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Social Media Widget
All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤4.0.8Update to 4.0.9 | CVE-2024-0974 | |
| Critical9.8 | Arbitrary File Upload ≤4.0Update to 4.0.1 | CVE-2013-1949 |
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤4.0.8Update to 4.0.9
- Critical9.8Arbitrary File Upload
≤4.0Update to 4.0.1
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.