A critical vulnerability in WordPress plugin Simple Social Buttons allows an attacker to completely takeover a website.
The plugin allows users to add social media sharing buttons on the sidebar, inline, above and below the content of the post, on photos, pop ups and fly-ins.
The bug is the result of and improper design flow an the lack of a permission check that results in privilege escalation and unauthorized actions in WordPress installation that could allow non-admin users or even subscribers to modify the WordPress installation options from the wp-options table according to a Feb. 11 WebARX blog post.
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