CVE-2023-6878 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Slick Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'dcssb_ajax_update' function in versions up to, and including, 2.4.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above to update the site options arbitrarily.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00216.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Leechesnutt	Slick Social Share Buttons

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:leechesnutt:slick_social_share_buttons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-59082	The Slick Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'dcssb_ajax_update' function in versions up to, and including, 2.4.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above to update the site options arbitrarily.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-social-share-buttons/tags/2.4.11/inc/dcwp_admin.php#L49
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79a5c01d-3867-4b1e-b0ba-9a802f0bed92?source=cve

History

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-01-11T08:32:39.464Z

Updated: 2025-06-17T21:09:14.660Z

Reserved: 2023-12-15T21:09:57.940Z

Link: CVE-2023-6878

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:42:08.189Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-11T09:15:52.940

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:44:44.710

Link: CVE-2023-6878

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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