CVE-2014-4717: Sharethis Simple Share Buttons Adder

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Simple Share Buttons Adder plugin before 4.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (1) ssba_share_text parameter in a save action to wp-admin/options-general.php, which is not properly handled in the homepage, and unspecified vectors related to (2) Pages, (3) Posts, (4) Category/Archive pages or (5) post Excerpts.

Affected products

• Sharethis Simple Share Buttons Adder: up to and including 4.4; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; …

Published 2014-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.