Social Network Tabs - Social Media API Key Leakage <= 1.7.1 - Information Exposure

9.8
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2018-20555
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published January 16, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher fs0c131y

Description

The Design Chemical Social Network Tabs plugin 1.7.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to discover Twitter access_token, access_token_secret, consumer_key, and consumer_secret values by reading the dcwp_twitter.php source code. This leads to Twitter account takeover.

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Vulnerability Details for Social Network Tabs

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-network-tabs
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.1

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