Description
The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin before 4.1.6 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.
Published: 2023-01-16
Score: 5.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-51821 The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin before 4.1.6 does not validate and escapes some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins.
History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

Smashballoon Smash Balloon Social Post Feed
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-04T17:55:02.332Z

Reserved: 2022-12-14T07:27:04.369Z

Link: CVE-2022-4477

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:41:44.829Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-16T16:15:12.443

Modified: 2025-04-04T18:15:45.060

Link: CVE-2022-4477

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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