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CVE-2023-5070: Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons <= 2.8.5 - Information Exposure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-10-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to, and including, 2.8.5 via the sfsi_save_export function. This can allow subscribers to export plugin settings that include social media authentication tokens and secrets as well as app passwords.

Affected products

• inisev Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons: before 2.8.6 — fixed in 2.8.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: inisev Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 2.8.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2975574/ultimate-social-media-icons/tags/2.8.6/libs/controllers/sfsi_buttons_controller.php?old=2956446&old_path=ultimate-social-media-icons%2Ftags%2F2.8.5%2Flibs%2Fcontrollers%2Fsfsi_buttons_controller.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e9e43c5b-a094-44ab-a8a3-52d437f0e00d?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2975574/ultimate-social-media-icons/tags/2.8.6/libs/controllers/sfsi_buttons_controller.php?old=2956446&old_path=ultimate-social-media-icons%2Ftags%2F2.8.5%2Flibs%2Fcontrollers%2Fsfsi_buttons_controller.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e9e43c5b-a094-44ab-a8a3-52d437f0e00d?source=cve

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