Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 4.1.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Priority MEDIUM 58Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00513 43rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA and NVD
Fix Fixed Smash Balloon Social Post Feed (Unknown): 4.1.6
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Smash Balloon Social Post Feed | before 4.1.6 | 4.1.6 | Patch available | CNA |
- Smash Balloon Social Post Feed VendorUnknown Affected before 4.1.6 Fixed in 4.1.6 Patch available CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:smash_balloon_social_post_feed:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | before 4.1.6 | Vulnerable | Smash Balloon |
- cpe:2.3:a:smashballoon:smash_balloon_social_post_feed:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions before 4.1.6 Vulnerable ·Smash Balloon
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Smash Balloon Social Post Feed (Unknown) Fixed in 4.1.6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-4477
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w6fg-m72j-wggm
References
More Smash Balloon Social Post Feed vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-06795 Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 2.19.2 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
- TI-2021-07343 Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 4.1.1 - Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2021-07198 Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 4.0.1 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update to Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
Sources
- CVE-2022-4477 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-4477 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-w6fg-m72j-wggm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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