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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-17658 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.
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History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Wpbeginner
Wpbeginner smash Balloon Social Post Feed
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:wpbeginner:smash_balloon_social_post_feed:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Wpbeginner
Wpbeginner smash Balloon Social Post Feed

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00032}

epss

{'score': 0.00037}


Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Smash Balloon Custom Facebook Feed <= 4.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via `data-color` Attribute
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-10T13:53:31.392Z

Reserved: 2025-05-12T12:35:11.812Z

Link: CVE-2025-4577

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-10T13:53:26.216Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-06-10T12:15:24.737

Modified: 2025-07-16T16:18:13.583

Link: CVE-2025-4577

cve-icon Redhat

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