Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic <= 9.7.5 — Information Disclosure
CVE-2022-0594Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤9.7.5Update to 9.7.6 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:L/I:N/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:LConfidentiality- Low
I:NIntegrity- None
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic shareaholic
- Affected≤ 9.7.5
- Patched in9.7.6
Update to 9.7.6 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 9.7.5. Version 9.7.6 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic.
- 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 9.7.6, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew).
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.
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
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All 4| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization via accept_terms_of_service ≤9.7.11Update to 9.7.12 | CVE-2024-24709 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ≤9.7.8Update to 9.7.9 | CVE-2023-4889 | |
| Medium5.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Cross-Site Scripting <7.6.1.0Update to 7.6.1.0 | CVE-2014-9311 |
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization via accept_terms_of_service
≤9.7.11Update to 9.7.12
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
≤9.7.8Update to 9.7.9
- Medium5.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Cross-Site Scripting
<7.6.1.0Update to 7.6.1.0
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- 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.