Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Security & Risk Analysis

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The most beautiful, responsive, lightning fast social share buttons built to boost shares and drive more traffic without slowing down your site.

20K active installs v4.5.6 PHP 5.6+ WP 4.5.0+ Updated Mar 18, 2025
floating-share-buttonsshare-buttonssharing-buttonssocial-media-sharesocial-sharing-plugin
84
B · Generally Safe
CVEs total8
Unpatched0
Last CVEFeb 19, 2025
Safety Verdict

Is Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Safe to Use in 2026?

Mostly Safe

Score 84/100

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare is generally safe to use though it hasn't been updated recently. 8 past CVEs were resolved. Keep it updated.

8 known CVEsLast CVE: Feb 19, 2025Updated 1yr ago
Risk Assessment

The static analysis of Social Warfare v4.5.6 presents a deceptively clean picture, with zero identified attack surface points, dangerous functions, or taint flows. This suggests that in this specific version, common vulnerability classes like XSS and SQL injection might not be directly exploitable through standard entry points. The code also demonstrates good practices like 100% prepared SQL statements and proper output escaping. However, this static snapshot does not account for potential vulnerabilities in bundled libraries (though none are listed here) or complex logic flaws that might not be caught by basic static analysis. It's crucial to note that the lack of capability checks and nonce checks, while not flagged as an issue in the static analysis for this specific version's entry points, represents a significant potential risk if any new entry points were to be introduced or if these checks were implicitly relied upon by other components.

Key Concerns

  • Significant past vulnerability history
  • Past critical and high severity vulnerabilities
  • Past code injection vulnerabilities
  • Past cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
  • Past missing authorization vulnerabilities
  • Past cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities
  • Lack of capability checks
  • Lack of nonce checks
Vulnerabilities
8

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Security Vulnerabilities

CVEs by Year

1 CVE in 2019
2019
1 CVE in 2021
2021
3 CVEs in 2023
2023
2 CVEs in 2024
2024
1 CVE in 2025
2025
Patched Has unpatched

Severity Breakdown

Critical
1
High
1
Medium
6

8 total CVEs

CVE-2025-26973medium · 6.4Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare <= 4.5.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Feb 19, 2025 Patched in 4.5.6 (31d)
CVE-2024-34825medium · 4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare <= 4.4.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

May 9, 2024 Patched in 4.4.6 (7d)
CVE-2024-1959medium · 6.4Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare <= 4.4.6.1 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Apr 22, 2024 Patched in 4.4.6.2 (11d)
CVE-2023-4842medium · 6.4Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Social Sharing Plugin - Social Warfare <= 4.4.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Nov 6, 2023 Patched in 4.4.4 (78d)
CVE-2023-0402medium · 5.4Missing Authorization

Social Warfare <= 4.3.0 - Missing Authorization

Jan 5, 2023 Patched in 4.3.1 (383d)
CVE-2023-0403medium · 5.4Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Social Warfare <= 4.3.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Jan 5, 2023 Patched in 4.4.0 (383d)
CVE-2021-4434critical · 10Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Social Warfare <= 3.5.2 - Remote Code Execution

Apr 29, 2021 Patched in 3.5.3 (999d)
CVE-2019-9978high · 7.2Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Social Warfare <= 3.5.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Settings Update

Mar 21, 2019 Patched in 3.5.3 (1769d)
Code Analysis
Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Code Analysis

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

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Attack Surface

Entry Points0
Unprotected0
WordPress Hooks 1
filterthe_excerptsocial-warfare.php:38
Maintenance & Trust

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.7.5
Last updatedMar 18, 2025
PHP min version5.6
Downloads1.9M

Community Trust

Rating66/100
Number of ratings186
Active installs20K
Developer Profile

Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare Developer Profile

WarfarePlugins

1 plugin · 20K total installs

68
trust score
Avg Security Score
84/100
Avg Patch Time
458 days
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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare

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

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths
/wp-content/plugins/social-warfare/css/style.css/wp-content/plugins/social-warfare/css/admin-style.css/wp-content/plugins/social-warfare/js/social-warfare.min.js/wp-content/plugins/social-warfare/js/admin.min.js
Script Paths
/wp-content/plugins/social-warfare/js/social-warfare.min.js/wp-content/plugins/social-warfare/js/admin.min.js
Version Parameters
social-warfare/style.css?ver=social-warfare/admin-style.css?ver=social-warfare/social-warfare.min.js?ver=social-warfare/admin.min.js?ver=

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes
social-warfare-buttonsswp_facebook_buttonswp_twitter_buttonswp_pinterest_buttonswp_linked_in_buttonswp_share_button
Data Attributes
data-pin-descriptiondata-pin-urldata-pin-mediadata-tweet-text
JS Globals
swptswpdSWP_SettingsSWP_Share_SourceSWP_Analytics
Shortcode Output
[social_warfare]
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare