Shared Counts – Social Media Share Buttons <= 1.4.1 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Email Sending

2024-05-07 00:00

Anonymous

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.5.0

Affected PluginShared Counts – Social Media Share Buttons

Affected Version<= 1.4.1

CVSS5.3Medium

CVEN/A

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Vulnerability Overview

The Shared Counts – Social Media Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access to functionality due to a missing capability check on the email_ajax function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send arbitrary emails.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.5.0, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/975293a1-7b69-4e10-93a3-74c00562c758

CVSS Vector

5.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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