Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons <= 2.8.5 - Information Exposure

6.5
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE CVE-2023-5070
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 16, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka - Wordfence

Description

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 2.8.5 via the sfsi_save_export function. This can allow subscribers to export plugin settings that include social media authentication tokens and secrets as well as app passwords.

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Vulnerability Details for Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ultimate-social-media-icons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.8.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.5
Patched Version
  • 2.8.6

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