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CVE-2023-6878: Slick Social Share Buttons <= 2.4.11 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Option Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2024-01-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-285

Description

The Slick Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'dcssb_ajax_update' function in versions up to, and including, 2.4.11. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions or above to update the site options arbitrarily.

Affected products

• remix4 Slick Social Share Buttons: through 2.4.11

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-social-share-buttons/tags/2.4.11/inc/dcwp_admin.php#L49
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79a5c01d-3867-4b1e-b0ba-9a802f0bed92?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-social-share-buttons/tags/2.4.11/inc/dcwp_admin.php#L49
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79a5c01d-3867-4b1e-b0ba-9a802f0bed92?source=cve

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