CVE-2023-5070

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

2023-10-16 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 2.8.6
Affected Plugin: Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Affected Version: <= 2.8.5
CVSS: 6.5Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2023-5070

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At a glance

CVE-2023-5070 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.8.5. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). The issue is fixed in version 2.8.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2023, reported by Marco Wotschka.

Vulnerability Overview

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.

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 interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons <= 2.8.5 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. For Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons the fix is 2.8.6: builds <= 2.8.5 are affected, anything from 2.8.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 2.8.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 2.8.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5070 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e9e43c5b-a094-44ab-a8a3-52d437f0e00d https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5070

Related records

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CVSS Vector

6.5

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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