Description

WordPress Plugin Social Sharing-Social Warfare contains malicous code. Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to create a new administrative user account, thus compromising the affected application, and possibly the webserver or computer. WordPress Plugin Social Sharing-Social Warfare versions 4.4.6.4 - 4.4.7.1 are affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 4.4.7.3 or latest

References

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-security-message-from-the-plugin-review-team/

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2024/06/supply-chain-attack-on-wordpress-org-plugins-leads-to-5-maliciously-compromised-wordpress-plugins/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/social-warfare/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2024-6297 CWE-506 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update