Medium severity · published Sep 18, 2026
CVE-2026-84909
Custom Twitter Feeds <= 2.8.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buttoncolor' Shortcode Attribute
6.4
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CT
Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget · smub
through 2.8.0 · source: vendor
Affected product
CT
Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget
smub
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84909
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84909
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/custom-twitter-feed.php#L432
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CTF_Parse.php#L551
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CTF_Settings.php#L234
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CTF_Settings.php#L293
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CtfFeed.php#L139
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.8.0/inc/CtfFeed.php#L2001
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