CVE-2018-20555 is a critical vulnerability affecting the Design Chemical Social Network Tabs plugin for WordPress, specifically version 1.7.1. It allows remote attackers to directly read sensitive Twitter API credentials (access_token, access_token_secret, consumer_key, and consumer_secret) from the plugin's source code, leading to Twitter account takeover. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:designchemical:social_network_tabs:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.