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CVE-2018-11632

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

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.

Affected products

• Multidots Add Social Share Messenger Buttons Whatsapp And Viber: 1.0.8

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

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