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CVE-2024-9697: Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin <= 1.3.4 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tweet_settings_save() and tweet_settings_update() functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.

Affected products

• socialrocket Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin: through 1.3.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-rocket/trunk/admin/includes/class-social-rocket-admin.php#L39
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-rocket/trunk/admin/includes/class-social-rocket-admin.php#L5501
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-rocket/trunk/admin/includes/class-social-rocket-admin.php#L5531
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3347243/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/168dd2d4-bffb-4187-afc7-02fef8cb51a7?source=cve

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