CVE-2025-4577

The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the data-color attribute in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-facebook-feed/tags/4.3.0/assets/js/cff-scripts.js#L245	Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-facebook-feed/tags/4.3.0/assets/js/cff-scripts.js#L254	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ec3de7e2-4a29-401f-af2c-0ce78d768eae?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:wpbeginner:smash_balloon_social_post_feed:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

16 Jul 2025, 16:18

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-06-10 12:15

Updated : 2025-07-16 16:18

NVD link : CVE-2025-4577

Mitre link : CVE-2025-4577

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-4577

JSON object : View

Products Affected

wpbeginner

smash_balloon_social_post_feed

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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