CVE-2022-4477 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2022-4477

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed < 4.1.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Lana Codes
  • WPScan

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Smash Balloon Social Post Feed
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 16th, 2023
Last Modified: April 4th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.