Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter <= 3.1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.1.1
- Affected Plugin
- Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter
- Affected Version
<= 3.1.0- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2025-1506
At a glance
CVE-2025-1506 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.1.0. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.1.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Brian Mungai.
Vulnerability Overview
The Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the counter_access_key_setup() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update social login provider settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
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.
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter <= 3.1.0 carries this weakness at counter_access_key_setup(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.
An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter the fix is 3.1.1: builds <= 3.1.0 are affected, anything from 3.1.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.1.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter 3.1.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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