CVE-2022-0594 Shareaholic < 9.7.6 - Information Disclosure
Unauthenticated or low-privilege users can access an AJAX endpoint to retrieve sensitive system and plugin information due to missing authorization checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-0594?
CVE-2022-0594 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic, published on 25 Jul 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts WordPress plugin before 9.7.6 does not have proper authorisation check in one of the AJAX action, available to unauthenticated (in v < 9.7.5) and author+ (in v9.7.5) users, allowing them to call it and retrieve various information such as the list of active plugins, various version like PHP, cURL, WP etc.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0594?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Shareaholic Shareaholic.
How do I fix CVE-2022-0594?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0594 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2022-0594 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-0594 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fm3m-2gf9-6p64.