Simple Social Media Share Buttons <= 5.1.0 — Unauthenticated Password Protected Post Disclosure
CVE-2023-5845Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.1.0Update to 5.1.1 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: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-287 Improper Authentication
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone simple-social-buttons
- Affected≤ 5.1.0
- Patched in5.1.1
Update to 5.1.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.1.0. Version 5.1.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone.
- 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 5.1.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Krzysztof Zając.
The Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.0 via meta tags. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve data from password protected posts that may have sensitive information.
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 8| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤6.2.0Update to 6.2.1 | CVE-2026-34904 | |
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤5.4.0Update to 6.0.0 | CVE-2024-13610 | |
| Medium4.8 | Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤3.2.3Update to 3.2.4 | CVE-2021-24656 | |
| Medium5.4 | Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤3.2.2Update to 3.2.3 | CVE-2021-24486 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤3.2.0Update to 3.2.1 | — |
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤6.2.0Update to 6.2.1
- Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤5.4.0Update to 6.0.0
- Medium4.8Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.2.3Update to 3.2.4
- Medium5.4Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.2.2Update to 3.2.3
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤3.2.0Update to 3.2.1
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.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.