Plugins · social-rocket · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Social Rocket safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 1.3.6
- Last updated
- 2026-10-06
- Active installs
- 1,000+
- Known issues on record
- 7
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 7.1.4 · PHP 5.5+
Add fully-customizable social sharing buttons to your site. Easy to use and packed with many additional social networking features. — by socialrocket
What to do
- Update to the latest version (1.3.6). Anything older than 1.3.6 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 social-rocket --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update social-rocket updates it.
Check your version
Known vulnerabilities
7 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.
high 7.1 CVE-2026-42418 · published 2026-10-06
Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) in Social Rocket (1.3.5 and older)
- Affected
- 1.3.5 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.3.6
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Socialrocket Social Rocket social-rocket allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Social Rocket: from n/a through 1.3.5.
medium 6.4 CVE-2026-1923 · published 2026-04-23
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Social Rocket (1.3.4.2 and older)
- Affected
- 1.3.4.2 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.3.5 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘id’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
medium 5.3 CVE-2024-9697 · published 2025-01-07
Missing authorization check in Social Rocket (1.3.4 and older)
- Affected
- 1.3.4 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.3.4.1 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the tweet_settings_save() and tweet_settings_update() functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugin's settings.
NVD CVE-2024-9697Wordfence advisoryCode change (fix)Plugin source
medium 5.4 CVE-2024-9702 · published 2025-01-07
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Social Rocket (1.3.4 and older)
- Affected
- 1.3.4 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.3.4.1 *
- 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 Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'socialrocket-floating' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
medium 6.1 CVE-2024-37258 · published 2024-07-22
Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) in Social Rocket (1.3.3 and older)
- Affected
- 1.3.3 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.3.4
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; 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
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Social Rocket allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Social Rocket: from n/a through 1.3.3.
medium 4.8 CVE-2022-3136 · published 2022-10-10
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Social Rocket (older than 1.3.3)
- Affected
- older than 1.3.3
- Fixed in
- 1.3.3
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs an admin-level account; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- NVD analysis · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Social Rocket WordPress plugin before 1.3.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
high 8.8 CVE-2020-5611 · published 2020-07-27
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in Social Rocket (older than 1.2.10)
- Affected
- older than 1.2.10
- Fixed in
- 1.2.10
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- advisory text · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Social Sharing Plugin versions prior to 1.2.10 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via unspecified vectors.
Recent activity
- 2026-10-06 — latest release on wordpress.org (1.3.6).
- 2026-10-06 — Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2026-42418), fixed in 1.3.6.
- 2026-04-23 — Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2026-1923), fixed in 1.3.5.
- 2025-01-07 — Missing authorization check disclosed (CVE-2024-9697), fixed in 1.3.4.1.
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Browse vulnerabilities
Types found in this plugin: Cross-site scripting (XSS) (5) · Missing authorization (1) · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/social-rocket (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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