When sharing new image for title and description plugin first of all looks in 'data-title' and 'data-summary' attributes of image.

So you can set your fully customizable content by adding this attributes. It's can look like that: If image doesn't have data attributes then plugin will use title attribute for title and attr attribute for summary. If image doesn't have data, title and attr attributes then will be used default title and description that you set in the plugin settings page. Also it is possible to set shared image that can be different from image in the 'img' tag. It's can be done with help of 'data-media' attribute: Also you can change shared link. By default plugin will share link to the page where your shared image in situated. But you can simply change this behavior. Just add 'data-url' attribute with link that you want to be shared. img src="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" data-url="http://your-link.com"> With the PRO plugin version you have the more advanced features in content customization. You can set priority for content sources, use special text variables and even customize sharing content individually for each sharing button.

by ILLID 4.1 (22 reviews)

Share This Image

Name: Share This Image
Rating: 4.1 (22 reviews)
Author: ILLID

Image sharing plugin for WordPress. Share exactly needed images with fully customizable content.

Share This Image ranks #6,696 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #272 of 3,410 in the Social & Sharing category, a 4.1/5 rating from 22 reviews, and was last updated Oct 8, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.17 Current Version v2.17

Updated 4 weeks ago Last Update on 08 Oct, 2026

Refreshed 5 days ago Last Refreshed on

#272 of 3,410 in Social & Sharing Top 10% by installs Downloads -31.4% this week Actively maintained

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Review 4.1 out of 5

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

16 known vulnerabilities on record · 4 in the last 24 months · checked 3 months ago

Apr 30, 2026

Share This Image [share-this-image] < 2.08

CVE-2024-13362 · Fixed in v2.08
Mar 26, 2026

Share This Image [share-this-image] < 2.13

CVE-2026-39563 · Fixed in v2.13
Feb 13, 2026

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CVE-2026-42641 · Fixed in v2.15
Jan 25, 2026

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CVE-2026-25010 · Fixed in v2.10
Oct 16, 2024

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CVE-2022-4974 · Fixed in v1.67
Sep 25, 2024

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CVE-2024-47326 · Fixed in v2.02
Sep 16, 2024

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CVE-2024-8761 · Fixed in v2.04
Sep 4, 2024

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CVE-2024-8363 · Fixed in v2.03
Aug 30, 2024

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CVE-2024-8108 · Fixed in v2.02
Apr 29, 2024

Share This Image [share-this-image] < 1.99

CVE-2024-33930 · Fixed in v1.99

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.17
Last Updated: Oct 08, 2026
Requires WP: 4.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: ILLID

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.1
Reviews: 22
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

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Share This Image is for WordPress site owners who want visitors to share specific images on social networks and messengers. It solves the problem of sharing entire pages instead of individual images by adding customizable per-image sharing icons with control over which images are shareable.

Social sharing icons per image
Supports facebook, x, linkedin, pinterest, tumblr
Supports WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger
Select which images to share
Customizable url, image, title, content
Built-in short links
Built-in shortcode
Google Analytics support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Share This Image

Share This Image ( STI ) is an image sharing plugin for WordPress. The main difference between this plugin and many other social sharing plugins is that STI specializes in image sharing and shares exactly selected images with fully customizable content like title, description and URL. Here is a list of some main plugin features: Exact image sharing. Fully customizable url, image, title and description that you want to share. Supports all most popular social networks/messengers. Choose what images on what pages to share. and many more... Please visit features page for a full list of available features.

Share This Image is a plugin for self-hosted WordPress sites, or wordpress.com hosted sites that allow installation of third party plugins. Share This Image requires the following at minimum to work properly: WordPress 4.0 or greater WooCommerce 3.0.0 or greater PHP 5.5 or greater MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.0 or greater Apache or Nginx server (recommended, but other options may work as well)

Plugin will work with most of the available WordPress themes. And it also was tested with the most popular WordPress plugins. If yo still faced any problems using the plugin please plugin contact support.

In order to start showing plugin sharing buttons you need to take the following steps: 1. Install and activate the Share This Image plugin. More. 2. Check the plugin settings page. More. 3. Check display rules. With these special options it is possible to choose what images on what pages must be available for sharing. More. 4. Set sharing button. Enable/disable sharing buttons that must be visible on your site. More. 5. Finish! From now sharing buttons must work on selected pages ( based on current display rules ).

Yes. With the Display rules option it became very simple to show/hide sharing button based image, page or user conditions.

Sharing buttons works great on both desktop and mobile devices. Optionally you can disable mobile sharing by opening the plugin settings page and turning off Enable on mobile? option. By default on mobile instead of a sharing button block you will see one sharing icon that will show a sharing button when clicking on it. But this behaviour can be changed.

Yes. With the PRO plugin settings you can choose from several pre-defined sharing buttons styles or change styling for each button individually. Learn more.

So you can set your fully customizable content by adding this attributes. It's can look like that: <img src="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" data-title="Title for image" data-summary="Description for image"> If image doesn't have data attributes then plugin will use title attribute for title and attr attribute for summary. <img src="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" title="Title for image" attr="Description for image"> If image doesn't have data, title and attr attributes then will be used default title and description that you set in the plugin settings page. Also it is possible to set shared image that can be different from image in the 'img' tag. It's can be done with help of 'data-media' attribute: <img src="youre-image-to-display-on-page.jpg" data-media="youre-image-to-share.jpg"> Also you can change shared link. By default plugin will share link to the page where your shared image in situated. But you can simply change this behavior. Just add 'data-url' attribute with link that you want to be shared. img src="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" data-url="http://your-link.com"> With the PRO plugin version you have the more advanced features in content customization. You can set priority for content sources, use special text variables and even customize sharing content individually for each sharing button.

Most common there is no need to use shortcode. Plugin will automatically work with all images that you have on your site. But with shorcode it is very simple to share desired image with custom title and description. All you need to do is add this shortcode inside your page or post content section [sti_image image="http://your-image-to-display.jpg" shared_image="http://your-image-to-share.jpg" shared_title="Your-title" shared_desc="Your-Description"] It is very simple and don't need additional explanation.

No. Plugin give ability to run it not only for images, but for any blocks of content. Only one condition - this block must have data-media attribute with link to shared image. For example - we have block with custom content inside. This block has class shared-box. So it is very easy to add sharing content for it. <div class="shared-box" data-media="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" data-title="Title for image" data-summary="Description for image"> Youre custom content ( text, html or any other ) </div>