WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Social Icons Widget & Block < 4.5.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sharing Configuration Creation

Description

The Social Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data modification due to a missing capability check in the add_menu_item() method hooked to admin_menu in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.8. This is due to the method performing wp_insert_post() and update_post_meta() calls to create a sharing configuration without verifying the current user has administrator-level capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to trigger the creation of a published wpzoom-sharing configuration post with default sharing button settings, which causes social sharing buttons to be automatically injected into all post content on the frontend via the the_content filter.

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Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
darkmode
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-03-12 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2026-03-12 (about 2 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-03-13 (about 2 months ago)

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