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CVE-2024-9697: Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin <= 1.3.4 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

5.3 CVSS

Description

The Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tweet_settings_save() and tweet_settings_update() functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-9697

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.3

Affected Products

Vendor: socialrocket

Product: Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 23.15% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-05 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/168dd2d4-bffb-4187-afc7-02fef8cb51a7?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-rocket/trunk/admin/includes/class-social-rocket-admin.php#L5501
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-rocket/trunk/admin/includes/class-social-rocket-admin.php#L39
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-rocket/trunk/admin/includes/class-social-rocket-admin.php#L5531

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