# Cool Author Box – For Widget and Post Content

> Cool Author Box displays an responsive author box with social media links to your widget and post content area.

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## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `hm-cool-author-box-widget`
- Author: Hossni Mubarak
- Version: 3.0.3
- Active installs: 500+
- Last update: 2026-09-21 (2 months ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.8, PHP 7.4
- Tags: author bio, author box, author info, Author Profile, author social icons
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hm-cool-author-box-widget/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 2 months ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Slows pages ↔ Speeds up, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible, Behind ↔ Current, Heavy ↔ Light, Pushy ↔ Fair, Closed ↔ Agent-ready.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2025-05-07 MEDIUM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 3.0.0). CVE-2025-47447, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc6f46b6-6832-4ccc-8272-2c470621f644?source=api-prod
- 2025-03-27 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.9.9). CVE-2025-30830, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30834541-acc6-461b-8d0d-66716a7dd947?source=api-prod
- 2023-07-18 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get (up to 2.9.4). WF-5253fe2b-040b-417c-b257-0cb59ee5aa6e-640, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5253fe2b-040b-417c-b257-0cb59ee5aa6e?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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