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CVE-2023-5602

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5602 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting all versions up to 2.8.5 of the Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons plugin for WordPress. This flaw stems from inadequate nonce validation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger AJAX actions if an administrator is tricked into clicking a malicious link. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability presents a significant risk, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, <= 2.8.5CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:inisev:social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
<= 2.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ultimatelysocial:social_media_share_buttons_\&_social_sharing_icons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
13.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 12th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media 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 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/2975574/ultimate-social-media-icons/tags/2.8.6/libs/controllers/sfsi_buttons_controller.php
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d44a45fb-3bff-4a1f-8319-a58a47a9d76b
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