CVE-2022-1912: Smartsoft Button Widget Smartsoft

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Button Widget Smartsoft plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to missing nonce validation on the smartsoftbutton_settings page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugins settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• Smartsoft Button Widget Smartsoft: version 1.0.1 only

Published 2022-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.