Twittee Text Tweet <= 1.0.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'id' Shortcode Attribute
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Twittee Text Tweet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' shortcode attribute in all versions up to and including 1.0.8. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. The ttt_twittee_tweeter() function uses extract() to pull shortcode attributes into local variables and then directly concatenates them into HTML output without any escaping. Specifically, the $id parameter is inserted into an HTML id attribute context without esc_attr(), allowing an attacker to break out of the attribute and inject arbitrary HTML event handlers. Additionally, the $tweet, $content, $balloon, and $theme attributes are similarly injected into inline JavaScript without escaping (lines 87, 93, 101, 117). 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-4089
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wfc4-vr66-fq9p
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d678e97-f466-4640-83ee-a3a24550e8d8?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twittee-text-tweet/trunk/ttt-twittee-text-tweet.php#L87
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twittee-text-tweet/tags/1.0.8/ttt-twittee-text-tweet.php#L87
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twittee-text-tweet/trunk/ttt-twittee-text-tweet.php#L55
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twittee-text-tweet/tags/1.0.8/ttt-twittee-text-tweet.php#L55
Sources
- CVE-2026-4089 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-4089 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wfc4-vr66-fq9p · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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