Social Sharing Buttons Security & Risk Analysis

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Social Share Buttons – Customize style, size, color and location of social sharing icons. 10+ Social Accounts. Light and Fast loading. Responsive.

200 active installs v1.1.9 PHP 7.0+ WP 3.0.1+ Updated Apr 14, 2025
social-buttonssocial-sharesocial-share-buttonsocial-sharingsocial-sharing-buttons
100
A · Safe
CVEs total0
Unpatched0
Last CVENever
Safety Verdict

Is Social Sharing Buttons Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 100/100

Social Sharing Buttons has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 11mo ago
Risk Assessment

The social-sharing-buttons plugin v1.1.9 exhibits a strong security posture based on the provided static analysis and vulnerability history. The plugin has a small attack surface with all identified entry points (AJAX handlers) protected by nonce checks. Notably, there are no raw SQL queries, file operations, or external HTTP requests, which significantly reduces common attack vectors. The taint analysis also shows no critical or high severity unsanitized flows, indicating the developers have implemented good sanitization practices for the limited data flows analyzed.

The vulnerability history is completely clean, with zero known CVEs, unpatched vulnerabilities, or past incidents. This suggests a history of secure development or a lack of significant security research targeting this specific plugin, which is a positive indicator. The code signals also show a good level of output escaping, with two-thirds of outputs being properly escaped, and the presence of nonce checks on all entry points further solidifies its secure design.

Overall, the plugin appears to be developed with security in mind, demonstrating good practices in input validation and output escaping. The absence of any historical vulnerabilities and the robust static analysis results point to a low-risk plugin. While the sample size for taint analysis is small, the lack of any concerning findings in the analyzed code, coupled with the clean vulnerability history, leads to a conclusion of high security.

Key Concerns

  • Partial output escaping
  • No capability checks on AJAX handlers
Vulnerabilities
None known

Social Sharing Buttons Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Social Sharing Buttons Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions
0
Raw SQL Queries
0
0 prepared
Unescaped Output
2
4 escaped
Nonce Checks
2
Capability Checks
0
File Operations
0
External Requests
0
Bundled Libraries
0

Output Escaping

67% escaped6 total outputs
Data Flows
All sanitized

Data Flow Analysis

2 flows
update_zb_sb_code (social-share-buttons.php:181)
Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized
Attack Surface

Social Sharing Buttons Attack Surface

Entry Points2
Unprotected0

AJAX Handlers 2

authwp_ajax_update_zb_sb_codesocial-share-buttons.php:178
noprivwp_ajax_update_zb_sb_codesocial-share-buttons.php:179
WordPress Hooks 4
actionadmin_initsocial-share-buttons.php:15
actionadmin_noticessocial-share-buttons.php:46
actionadmin_menusocial-share-buttons.php:82
actionwp_headsocial-share-buttons.php:175
Maintenance & Trust

Social Sharing Buttons Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.7.5
Last updatedApr 14, 2025
PHP min version7.0
Downloads35K

Community Trust

Rating94/100
Number of ratings13
Active installs200
Developer Profile

Social Sharing Buttons Developer Profile

Zotabox

12 plugins · 4K total installs

79
trust score
Avg Security Score
100/100
Avg Patch Time
1712 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Social Sharing Buttons

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

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/social-sharing-buttons/assets/css/style.css/wp-content/plugins/social-sharing-buttons/assets/js/main.js
Script Paths
wp-content/plugins/social-sharing-buttons/assets/js/main.js?v=
Version Parameters
social-sharing-buttons/assets/css/style.css?ver=social-sharing-buttons/assets/js/main.js?ver=

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
ztb-register-formztb-submit-buttonztb-wrapperztb-logoztb-code-wrapperztb-title
Data Attributes
zb-plugintarget="zotabox"readonly
JS Globals
ZBT_WP_ADMIN_URLZTB_BASE_URL
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Social Sharing Buttons