CVSS 3.0
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2018-11632
Medium (6.5) in multidots add social share messenger buttons whatsapp and viber. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in the MULTIDOTS Add Social Share Messenger Buttons Whatsapp and Viber plugin 1.0.8 for WordPress. If an admin user can be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker (via spear phishing/social engineering), the attacker can change the plugin settings via wp-admin/admin-post.php CSRF. There's no nonce or capability check in the whatsapp_share_setting_add_update() function.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-352
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- multidots:add_social_share_messenger_buttons_whatsapp_and_viber
References
- http://labs.threatpress.com/cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-in-add-social-share-messenger-buttons-whatsapp-and-viber-plugin/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-social-share-buttons/#developers
- http://labs.threatpress.com/cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-in-add-social-share-messenger-buttons-whatsapp-and-viber-plugin/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-social-share-buttons/#developers