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CVE-2024-0379: Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget <= 2.2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Options Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ctf_auto_save_tokens function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the site's twitter API token and secret via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• smub Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget: before 2.2.2 — fixed in 2.2.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: smub Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget 2.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&new=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file3
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29e2ff11-053b-45cc-adf1-d276f1ee576e?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&new=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file3
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29e2ff11-053b-45cc-adf1-d276f1ee576e?source=cve

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