Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons <= 3.6.2 — Missing Authorization to Notice Dismissal
CVE-2024-32820Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.6.2Update to 3.6.3 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
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons ultimate-social-media-plus
- Affected≤ 3.6.2
- Patched in3.6.3
Update to 3.6.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.6.2. Version 3.6.3 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 Share Icons & Social Share Buttons.
- 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 3.6.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kévin Mosbahi (Mika).
The Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 3.6.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to dismiss notices.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. 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.