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CVE-2022-4477

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
January 16, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Affected WordPress components

  • Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress Plugin · custom-facebook-feed
    Confirmed match Active
    Before 4.1.6
    View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Smash Balloon Social Post Feed — Before 4.1.6
  • smashballoon smash_balloon_social_post_feed — Before 4.1.6

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c32a4c58-9f2b-4afa-9a21-4b4a5c4c4c41 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record