VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-4717

medium
Published 2014-07-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Simple Share Buttons Adder plugin before 4.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (1) ssba_share_text parameter in a save action to wp-admin/options-general.php, which is not properly handled in the homepage, and unspecified vectors related to (2) Pages, (3) Posts, (4) Category/Archive pages or (5) post Excerpts.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33896 webapps php
dxw · 2014-06-27

WordPress Plugin Simple Share Buttons Adder 4.4 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder{"endIncluding":"4.4"}
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.0
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.1
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.2
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.3
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.4
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.5
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.6
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.7
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.8
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder1.9
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.0
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.1
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.2
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.3
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.4
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.5
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.6
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.7
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.8
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder2.9
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.0
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.1
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.2
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.3
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.4
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.5
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.6
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.7
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.8
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder3.9
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder4.0
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder4.1
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder4.2
sharethissimple_share_buttons_adder4.3

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.