CVE-2024-32820 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-32820: WordPress Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons plugin <= 3.6.2 - Broken Access Control lead to Notice Dismissal vulnerability

Vendor Social Share Pro

Product Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons

Weakness CWE-862 · Missing authorization

Published June 9, 2024

Last update April 28, 2026

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CVSS base score

5.3/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality None

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Social Share Pro Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons.This issue affects Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons: from n/a through 3.6.2.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons through version 3.6.2 lacks proper authorization checks, allowing unauthenticated attackers to modify data via network requests. The vulnerability does not expose sensitive information or disrupt service availability, but permits unauthorized changes to site content or settings. Update to a version newer than 3.6.2 to remediate.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Modify site data or settings without authentication.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Unauthorized changes to social sharing configuration or related site data.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Network access only; no authentication or user interaction required.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2024 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32820 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html AskarLabs — CWE-862 write-up Missing Authorization

Related vulnerabilities

Identifiers

CVE CVE-2024-32820

CWE CWE-862

CVSS 5.3 / MEDIUM

Affected versions