CVE-2026-11563: Unknown Word Count And Social Shares

Critical severity, CVSS 9.6. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Word Count and Social Shares WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not validate a user-supplied file path before deletion, nor does it have proper authorization or CSRF checks, allowing any authenticated user, such as a Subscriber, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can lead to a full site takeover (e.g. by deleting wp-config.php).

Affected products

• Unknown Word Count And Social Shares: up to and including 1.0

Published 2026-07-14. Last modified 2026-07-14.