CVE-2024-9697 Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin <= 1.3.4 - Missing Authorization to Settings Update
Authenticated subscribers can modify Social Rocket plugin settings due to missing capability checks, allowing unauthorized configuration changes.
- 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-2024-9697?
CVE-2024-9697 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in socialrocket Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin, published on 7 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9697?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpsocialrocket Social Rocket.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9697?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9697 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-2024-9697 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9697 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in socialrocket Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p9mp-q42m-g65q.