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CVE-2025-1314: Custom Twitter Feeds <= 2.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cache Reset via ctf_clear_cache_admin Function

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-20 · 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, 2.2.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ctf_clear_cache_admin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset the plugin's cache 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: through 2.2.5

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php#L1014
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php#L810
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php#L833
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3254840/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-twitter-feeds/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/28d47605-ecb8-42cc-901a-3cf07b946877?source=cve

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