WordPress plugin · simple-social-buttons
Is Simple Social Media Share Buttons safe?
Safe on 7.2.0 or newer.
The current version, 7.2.0, is past every affected range on record (5 of 5 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 5
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 7.2.0
- Last updated
- Oct 19, 2026
- Active installs
- 20,000+
Every recorded flaw
- Apr 7, 2026Simple Social Media Share Buttons: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVE-2026-34904 · affects up to 6.2.0 · reported by PatchstackHigh 7.5
- Apr 15, 2025Simple Social Media Share Buttons: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2024-13610 · fixed in 6.0.0 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
- Nov 27, 2023The Simple Social Media Share Buttons WordPress plugin before 5.1.1 leaks password-protected post content to unauthenticated visitors in some meta tagsCVE-2023-5845 · fixed in 5.1.1 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.3
- Oct 11, 2021Simple Social Media Share Buttons: Does not escape the Share Title settings before outputting it in the frontend pages or posts (depending on the settings used)CVE-2021-24656 · fixed in 3.2.4 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
- Aug 23, 2021Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone: Did not escape the align and like_button_size parameters of its SSB shortcodeCVE-2021-24486 · fixed in 3.2.3 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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