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.
History

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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 '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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2026-08-16T05:27:30.012Z

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 : Received

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

Modified: 2026-08-17T18:16:33.610

Link: CVE-2026-16775

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