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CVE-2022-1912: Button Widget Smartsoft <= 1.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Button Widget Smartsoft plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the smartsoftbutton_settings page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugins settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• smartsoftbuttonwidget Button Widget Smartsoft: 1.0.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smartsoftbutton-widget-de-botones-de-chat/trunk/admin/pages/settings.php#L60
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/53757567-5024-46cc-b2ae-04b5fc55a35c?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1912
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smartsoftbutton-widget-de-botones-de-chat/trunk/admin/pages/settings.php#L60
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/53757567-5024-46cc-b2ae-04b5fc55a35c?source=cve
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-1912

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