Description
The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions corresponding to AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Published: 2023-10-20
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-57895 The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on several functions corresponding to AJAX actions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke those actions via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons <= 2.8.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Ultimatelysocial Social Media Share Buttons \& Social Sharing Icons
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:25:46.704Z

Reserved: 2023-10-16T13:15:22.478Z

Link: CVE-2023-5602

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:07:32.169Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-20T08:15:13.577

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:18:50.750

Link: CVE-2023-5602

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses