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CVE-2023-0402: Social Warfare <= 4.3.0 - Missing Authorization

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Social Warfare plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on several AJAX actions in versions up to, and including, 4.3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to delete post meta information and reset network access tokens.

Affected products

• warfareplugins Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare: through 4.3.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/trunk/lib/options/SWP_Options_Page.php?rev=2364155#L923
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2844092%40social-warfare&new=2844092%40social-warfare&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4bc4ba2c-32eb-46c5-bb40-7c0150fc1ca4?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-warfare/trunk/lib/options/SWP_Options_Page.php?rev=2364155#L923
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2844092%40social-warfare&new=2844092%40social-warfare&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4bc4ba2c-32eb-46c5-bb40-7c0150fc1ca4

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