Social Network Tabs - Social Media API Key Leakage <= 1.7.1 - Information Exposure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- Social Network Tabs
- Affected Version
<= 1.7.1- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
- CVE
CVE-2018-20555
At a glance
CVE-2018-20555 is a critical-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Social Network Tabs WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.7.1. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed January 2019, reported by fs0c131y.
Vulnerability Overview
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.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Reaching this weakness in Social Network Tabs <= 1.7.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.
The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for Social Network Tabs yet, so installs running <= 1.7.1 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
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.
How does WordSec protect against this?
No patched version is recorded yet, so there is nothing to update to; WordSec's vulnerability alerts flag this record the moment that changes.
- Alerts
External References
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