CVE-2022-4477

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 4.1.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

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

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed

CVSS v3.1 NVD

5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 42nd percentile

Published

2023-01-16

Updated

2025-04-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c32a4c58-9f2b-4afa-9a21-4b4a5c4c4c41

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry