Plugins · shareaholic · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & R… safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 9.7.13
- Last updated
- 2024-11-05
- Active installs
- 10,000+
- Known issues on record
- 4
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 6.7.11 · PHP 5.3+
Boost Audience Engagement with Award Winning Speed Optimized Social Tools: Share Buttons, Related Posts, Monetization & Google Analytics. — by Shareaholic
What to do
- Update to the latest version (9.7.13). Anything older than 9.7.12 has at least one known issue listed below. Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan.
With WP-CLI: wp plugin get shareaholic --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update shareaholic updates it.
Check your version
Known vulnerabilities
4 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.
medium 4.3 CVE-2024-24709 · published 2026-06-17
Missing authorization check in Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & R… (9.7.11 and older)
- Affected
- 9.7.11 and older
- Fixed in
- 9.7.12
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Shareaholic allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels. This issue affects Shareaholic: from n/a through 9.7.11.
medium 5.4 CVE-2023-4889 · published 2023-11-15
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & R… (9.7.8 and older)
- Affected
- 9.7.8 and older
- Fixed in
- 9.7.9 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Shareaholic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shareaholic' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.7.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
medium 5.3 CVE-2022-0594 · published 2022-07-25
Missing authorization check in Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & R… (older than 9.7.6)
- Affected
- older than 9.7.6
- Fixed in
- 9.7.6
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed
- Range from
- NVD analysis · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts WordPress plugin before 9.7.6 does not have proper authorisation check in one of the AJAX action, available to unauthenticated (in v < 9.7.5) and author+ (in v9.7.5) users, allowing them to call it and retrieve various information such as the list of active plugins, various version like PHP, cURL, WP etc.
low 3.5 CVE-2014-9311 · published 2015-04-14
Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & R… (7.6.0.9 and older)
- Affected
- 7.6.0.9 and older
- Fixed in
- 7.6.1.0 *
- Range from
- NVD analysis · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin.php in the Shareaholic plugin before 7.6.1.0 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the location[id] parameter in a shareaholic_add_location action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.
NVD CVE-2014-9311wordpress.orgpacketstormsecurity.comsecurity.szurek.pl
Recent activity
- 2024-11-05 — latest release on wordpress.org (9.7.13).
- 2026-06-17 — Missing authorization check disclosed (CVE-2024-24709), fixed in 9.7.12.
- 2023-11-15 — Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2023-4889), fixed in 9.7.9.
- 2022-07-25 — Missing authorization check disclosed (CVE-2022-0594), fixed in 9.7.6.
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Browse vulnerabilities
Types found in this plugin: Missing authorization (2) · Cross-site scripting (XSS) (2)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.
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