Floating Social Media Links < 1.4.3 — Remote File Inclusion via fsml-admin.js.php wpp parameter
ecd35d5a-5270-4132-bc62-d75da5141313Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <1.4.3Update to 1.4.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-98 Local File Inclusion
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Floating Social Media Links floating-social-media-links
- Affected< 1.4.3
- Patched in1.4.3
Update to 1.4.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 1.4.3. Version 1.4.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Floating Social Media Links.
- 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 1.4.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Floating Social Media Links to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Charlie Eriksen.
The Floating Social Media Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote File Inclusion in versions before 1.4.3 via the 'wpp' parameter in fsml-admin.js.php. This allows unauthenticated attackers to include remote files on the server, resulting in code execution.
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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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.4 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.5.2No patch available | CVE-2024-37545 | |
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<1.4.3Update to 1.4.3
Same weakness (Local File Inclusion)
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|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
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.
