WordPress · The Professional Social Sharing Buttons · CVE-2022-0594
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
The Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts WordPress plugin versions prior to 9.7.6
**Description**
The issue is related to a lack of proper authorization check in one of the AJAX actions, allowing unauthorized access to retrieve sensitive information such as the list of active plugins and various version details like PHP, cURL, and WP. This affects unauthenticated users in versions prior to 9.7.5 and author+ users in version 9.7.5.
**Recommendations**
For versions prior to 9.7.6, update to version 9.7.6 or later to resolve the issue.
As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vulnerable AJAX action until a patch is available.