XSS in Smub Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget Or X Feed

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 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-84909?
CVE-2026-84909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smub Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget Or X Feed, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2026-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2026-84909?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.