WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 4.14.0 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Facebook Comment Message

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a Facebook comment message rendered through v-html in the admin feed builder preview, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute whenever an administrator accesses the feed builder preview page; the attack requires only a Facebook account to post a comment on the connected Facebook Page, with no WordPress credentials needed. The use of v-show rather than v-if means injected HTML, including onerror handlers, is evaluated in the DOM even when the comment section is not visually displayed. Combined with the lack of URL validation in the cff_install_addon AJAX handler (admin/addon-functions.php), an injected script running in an administrator's session can trigger arbitrary plugin installation from an attacker-controlled URL, which may result in server-side code execution.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.14.0

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Yuto Hyakumoto
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-01 (about 16 days ago)
Added
2026-10-02 (about 15 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-16 (about 9 hours ago)

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