CVE-2024-6405: Floating Social Buttons <= 1.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Floating Social Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the floating_social_buttons_option() function. 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

bhagirath25 Floating Social Buttons: through 1.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/floating-social-buttons/trunk/floating-social-buttons.php#L230
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/befe5e99-204e-470e-bbbb-285b5ba0b1fb?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/floating-social-buttons/trunk/floating-social-buttons.php#L230
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/befe5e99-204e-470e-bbbb-285b5ba0b1fb?source=cve

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