The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'id' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.0 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.
Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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


Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Smub
Smub smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds For Wordpress
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Smub
Smub smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds For Wordpress
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'id' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.0 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 Social Post Feed <= 4.9.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'id' Shortcode 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'}


Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-17T17:10:39.060Z

Reserved: 2026-07-23T17:10:06.554Z

Link: CVE-2026-16775

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-17T17:10:20.543Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-16T06:16:51.217

Modified: 2026-08-20T12:48:10.287

Link: CVE-2026-16775

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-17T10:59:02Z

Weaknesses