CVE-2026-84909
The Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buttoncolor' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buttoncolor' Shortcode Attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. This vulnerability is exploitable on common installs where the admin has configured access tokens with zero or multiple legacy feeds, as this causes the ctf_statuses support_legacy_shortcode option to be set to boolean true by default, activating the unfiltered legacy shortcode attribute code path.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.41% probability · 35th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS 0.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/custom-twitter-feed.php#L432
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CTF_Parse.php#L551
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CTF_Settings.php#L234
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CTF_Settings.php#L293
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CtfFeed.php#L139
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CtfFeed.php#L2001
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CtfFeed.php#L2338
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3695675%40custom-twitter-feeds&old=3665650%40custom-twitter-feeds
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b1a9d042-c0c0-477a-8cdf-9fb9d2239059?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.