# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p9mp-q42m-g65q

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9697?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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

- [CVE-2024-37258](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37258/): WordPress Social Rocket plugin <= 1.3.3 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-9702](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9702/): Social Rocket <= 1.3.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2022-3136](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3136/): Social Rocket < 1.3.3 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9697 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9697 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: socialrocket Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9697/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9697/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9697
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9697
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9697

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9697/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.