Meks Easy Social Share Security & Risk Analysis

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Easily display social share buttons for your posts, pages and custom post types. Supports Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Email, Google+, Linked …

10K active installs v1.3 PHP + WP 3.7+ Updated Jul 29, 2024
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92
A · Safe
CVEs total1
Unpatched0
Last CVESep 26, 2022
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Safety Verdict

Is Meks Easy Social Share Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 92/100

Meks Easy Social Share has a strong security track record. Known vulnerabilities have been patched promptly. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

1 known CVELast CVE: Sep 26, 2022Updated 1yr ago
Risk Assessment

The static analysis for Meks Easy Social Share v1.3 reveals an exceptionally clean code base with no identified dangerous functions, direct SQL queries, file operations, or external HTTP requests. The absence of AJAX handlers, REST API routes, shortcodes, and cron events suggests a minimal attack surface. Furthermore, the high percentage of properly escaped output and the lack of taint analysis findings indicate good development practices concerning input sanitization and output encoding. The vulnerability history shows a single medium-severity Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, which is now patched. Overall, this version of the plugin appears to be robust from a security perspective, with a strong emphasis on secure coding practices. The primary concern is the historical XSS vulnerability, which, although patched, highlights a potential area of weakness that future development should continue to monitor. However, the current static analysis does not reveal any immediate exploitable flaws in this specific version.

Key Concerns

  • Historical medium severity XSS vulnerability
  • No nonce checks observed
  • No capability checks observed
Vulnerabilities
1 published

Meks Easy Social Share Security Vulnerabilities

CVEs by Year

1 CVE in 2022
2022
Patched Has unpatched

Severity Breakdown

Medium
1

1 total CVE

CVE-2022-2574medium · 5.5Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Meks Easy Social Share <= 1.2.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Sep 26, 2022 Patched in 1.2.8 (484d)
Version History

Meks Easy Social Share Release Timeline

v1.2.10
v1.2.71 CVE
v1.21 CVE
v1.11 CVE
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Meks Easy Social Share Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
1
38 escaped
Nonce Checks
0
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

97% escaped39 total outputs
Attack Surface

Meks Easy Social Share Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 9
actionadmin_menuinc\class-share.php:78
actionadmin_initinc\class-share.php:79
actionadmin_enqueue_scriptsinc\class-share.php:80
filterplugin_action_linksinc\class-share.php:82
actionplugins_loadedinc\class-share.php:83
actionwp_enqueue_scriptsinc\class-share.php:85
actionpre_get_postsinc\class-share.php:88
filterthe_contentinc\class-share.php:705
actioninitmeks-easy-social-share.php:29
Maintenance & Trust

Meks Easy Social Share Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.6.5
Last updatedJul 29, 2024
PHP min version
Downloads227K

Community Trust

Rating90/100
Number of ratings8
Active installs10K
Developer Profile

Meks Easy Social Share Developer Profile

Meks

14 plugins · 117K total installs

72
trust score
Avg Security Score
90/100
Avg Patch Time
236 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Meks Easy Social Share

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/meks-easy-social-share/assets/css/admin.css/wp-content/plugins/meks-easy-social-share/assets/js/admin.js/wp-content/plugins/meks-easy-social-share/assets/css/main.css
Script Paths
/wp-content/plugins/meks-easy-social-share/assets/js/admin.js
Version Parameters
meks-easy-social-share/assets/css/admin.css?ver=meks-easy-social-share/assets/js/admin.js?ver=meks-easy-social-share/assets/css/main.css?ver=

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
meks-ess-share-buttons
Data Attributes
data-variantdata-styledata-colordata-shapedata-size
Shortcode Output
[meks_ess_share]
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Meks Easy Social Share