PT-2023-14552 · WordPress · Smash Balloon Social Post Feed

Lana Codes · Published 2023-01-16 · Updated 2025-04-04 · CVE-2022-4477

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin versions prior to 4.1.6

Description The issue allows users with a role as low as a contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged-in admins due to the plugin's failure to validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page.

Recommendations For Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin versions prior to 4.1.6, update to version 4.1.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4477

Affected Products

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed

References · 4

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c32a4c58-9f2b-4afa-9a21-4b4a5c4c4c41 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4477 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/117838 · Telegram Post