Vulnerabilities and security researches forultimate-posts-widget ultimate-posts-widget

Jun 07, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-0561
Home page URL: Security reports for Ultimate Posts Widget
Application: Ultimate Posts Widget
Date: Mar 11, 2024
Research Description: The Ultimate Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in attributes, 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)
Affected versions: max 2.3.1.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-0958
Home page URL: Security reports for Ultimate Posts Widget
Application: Ultimate Posts Widget
Date: Jul 28, 2023
Research Description: Several plugins for WordPress by Inisev are vulnerable to unauthorized installation of plugins due to a missing capability check on the handle_installation function that is called via the inisev_installation AJAX aciton in various versions. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions, such as subscribers, to install select plugins from Inisev on vulnerable sites. CVE-2023-38514 appears to be a duplicate of this vulnerability.
Affected versions: max 2.2.5.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-31435
Home page URL: Security reports for Ultimate Posts Widget
Application: Ultimate Posts Widget
Date: -
Research Description: Ultimate Posts Widget [ultimate-posts-widget] < 2.3.0 CVE-2024-31435
Affected versions: max 2.3.0.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-3977
Home page URL: Security reports for Ultimate Posts Widget
Application: Ultimate Posts Widget
Date: Jul 28, 2023
Research Description: Several plugins for WordPress by Inisev are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery to unauthorized installation of plugins due to a missing nonce check on the handle_installation function that is called via the inisev_installation AJAX aciton in various versions. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install plugins from the limited list via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions: max 2.2.5.
Status: vulnerable

Mar 21, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-38514
Home page URL: Security reports for Ultimate Posts Widget
Application: Ultimate Posts Widget
Date: Dec 13, 2024
Research Description: Missing Authorization vulnerability in social share pro Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons: from n/a through 3.5.7.
Affected versions: max 2.2.5.
Status: vulnerable