Simple Share Buttons Adder <= 4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2014-4717
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published June 26, 2014
Last Updated January 27, 2023
Researcher Duncan Stuart - DXW Security

Description

The Simple Share Buttons Adder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 4.4. This is due to missing nonce validation on simple-share-buttons-adder page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious web scripts via the 'ssba_share_text' parameter through a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for Simple Share Buttons Adder

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-share-buttons-adder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.5, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.4
Patched Version
  • 4.5

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