WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Shared Counts – Social Media Share Buttons < 1.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Email Sending

Description

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.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
shared-counts
Fixed in 1.5.0

References

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

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
OWASP top 10
A5: Broken Access Control
CWE
CWE-862
CVSS
5.3 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Verified
No
WPVDB ID
3d7a5478-715d-459e-b27f-1208aaaac02b

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-05-07 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2024-07-08 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2024-07-08 (about 1 year ago)

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