CVE-2024-54423
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Jesse Overright Social Media Sharing social-media-sharing allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Social Media Sharing: from n/a through <= 1.1.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceA CSRF vulnerability in the Social Media Sharing plugin allows attackers to craft malicious requests that result in stored XSS. An attacker could trick an authenticated administrator into submitting a crafted request that injects malicious scripts into the plugin's settings or shared content, which then executes when viewed by other users.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if Social Media Sharing plugin is installedAccess WordPress admin dashboard, navigate to Plugins section, or inspect the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for a social-media-sharing or similar named plugin folder. Note the installed version from the plugin headers.Affected if The plugin folder exists and the plugin is active in WordPress.
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Check admin action handlers for nonce verificationInspect PHP files in the plugin directory, specifically looking for admin action handlers (files handling form submissions, settings saves, or AJAX requests). Search for 'wp_verify_nonce', 'check_admin_referer', or 'check_ajax_referer' function calls.Affected if Admin action handlers lack nonce verification calls, meaning no anti-CSRF protection exists.
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Inspect form submissions for nonce fieldsExamine PHP files that render admin forms (settings pages). Search for 'wp_nonce_field', 'wp_nonce_url', or 'nonce_field' function calls within <form> tags.Affected if Admin forms do not include nonce fields, leaving them vulnerable to CSRF attacks.
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Verify output sanitization on settings/content displayInspect PHP files that display plugin settings or shared content in the frontend. Look for WordPress sanitization functions such as 'esc_html', 'esc_attr', 'esc_url', or 'sanitize_text_field' when outputting user-controlled data.Affected if Plugin outputs settings or content without proper sanitization, allowing stored XSS.
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Confirm plugin handles user-supplied contentReview the plugin code to determine if it accepts and stores user-generated content (social share text, custom messages, URLs) that gets displayed to other users.Affected if The plugin stores and displays user-supplied content without sanitization.
The environment is affected if the Social Media Sharing plugin is installed and either lacks nonce verification on admin actions or fails to sanitize output when displaying plugin settings or shared content to users.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) for all admin actions and form submissions, combined with proper output sanitization using WordPress sanitization functions to prevent stored XSS.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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