CVE-2022-0594: Shareaholic < 9.7.6 - Information Disclosure

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts WordPress plugin before 9.7.6 does not have proper authorisation check in one of the AJAX action, available to unauthenticated (in v < 9.7.5) and author+ (in v9.7.5) users, allowing them to call it and retrieve various information such as the list of active plugins, various version like PHP, cURL, WP etc.

Affected products

Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic: before 9.7.6 — fixed in 9.7.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic 9.7.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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