Description
The Social Icons Widget & Block by WPZOOM plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized data modification due to a missing capability check in the add_menu_item() method hooked to admin_menu in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.8. This is due to the method performing wp_insert_post() and update_post_meta() calls to create a sharing configuration without verifying the current user has administrator-level capabilities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to trigger the creation of a published wpzoom-sharing configuration post with default sharing button settings, which causes social sharing buttons to be automatically injected into all post content on the frontend via the the_content filter.
Problem types
Product status
* (semver)
Timeline
| 2026-03-12: | Vendor Notified |
| 2026-03-12: | Disclosed |
Credits
darkestmode
References
www.wordfence.com/...-1758-495f-b6d7-364488de9ab8?source=cve
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...oom-social-sharing-buttons.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...oom-social-sharing-buttons.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...oom-social-sharing-buttons.php
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=