WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
Social Sharing Plugin - Kiwi 2.1.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary WordPress Options Update and Read
Description
The plugin re-introduced an issue in v2.1.0, allowing unauthenticated attacker to update and read arbitrary WordPress options. This could allow them to create admin accounts by enabling registration and setting the user default role to administrator, or to modify the value of siteurl in order to redirect all traffic to an external malicious website
Affects Plugins
References
Classification
Type
ACCESS CONTROLS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Jerome Bruandet (nintechnet)
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2021-06-04 (about 4 years ago)
Added
2021-06-04 (about 4 years ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-04 (about 9 days ago)