CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-6177
The Custom Twitter Feeds plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 2.5.4. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the CTF_Display_Elements::get_post_text() function when rendering cached tweet text. The plugin's ctf_get_more_posts AJAX action is available to unauthenticated users and directly outputs cached tweet data through nl2br() without HTML escaping. When an attacker can get malicious content into cached tweet data (either by t
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget","vendor":"smub","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.5.4","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":7.2,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
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CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
10 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/custom-twitter-feed.php#L447"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L505"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L521"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/templates/item.php#L36"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php#L447"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/references/4
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L505"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L521"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/references/5
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/templates/item.php#L36"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/references/7
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3519584%40custom-twitter-feeds&old=3481416%40custom-twitter-feeds"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/references/9
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e4b2178f-e4da-4bfb-9c27-8c1884499769?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:1d4cf5ae4e32c855bcfa916dac67fe9df505a1fc3b242c1d4de459e2ec27f47f · sha256:b53cd2df65d821fe… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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