Known vulnerabilities in Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons

Share buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing

12Reported vulnerabilities

8.8Highest CVSS score

2.9.9Latest version

100,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons to 3.0.0 or later. 12 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: June 12, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2024-2118	Medium 5.9	0.4%	Before 2.8.9	`2.8.9`	April 17, 2024
CVE-2024-10362	Medium 4.8	0.3%	Before 2.9.1	`2.9.1`	May 15, 2025
CVE-2023-5602	High 8.8	0.2%	2.8.5 and earlier	`2.8.6`	October 20, 2023
WF-f771cf62-3aa9-472e-beb5-011a4f28e335	High 7.3	—	1.2.1 and earlier	`1.2.2`	July 20, 2015
CVE-2026-66623	High 7.2	0.1%	2.9.9 and earlier	`3.0.0`	August 20, 2026
CVE-2023-5070	Medium 6.5	1.2%	Before 2.8.6	`2.8.6`	October 20, 2023
WF-c0d79ae1-e9e4-4798-aa29-519b80759be6	Medium 6.4	—	1.1.1.11 and earlier	`1.1.1.12`	May 30, 2015
CVE-2023-41238	Medium 6.1	0.4%	2.8.3 and earlier	`2.8.4`	August 29, 2023
WF-b09c98f2-6492-41e1-8d87-e10ed2ef5f9f	Medium 6.1	—	2.1.7 and earlier	`2.1.9`	March 27, 2019
WF-86167b8c-6d4e-495d-96f7-8cda8e2c80b8	Medium 5.4	—	1.5.1 and earlier	`1.5.2`	June 28, 2016
CVE-2024-37552	Medium 4.4	0.3%	2.9.1 and earlier	`2.9.2`	July 6, 2024
CVE-2023-34009	Medium 4.3	0.5%	2.8.1 and earlier	`2.8.2`	June 2, 2023

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.