CVE-2026-5425: Widgets for Social Photo Feed <= 1.7.9 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via feed_data

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2026-04-04 · updated 2026-07-24
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Widgets for Social Photo Feed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'feed_data' parameter keys in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

trustindex Widgets for Social Photo Feed: through 1.7.9

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=social-photo-feed-widget/tags/1.7.8/social-photo-feed-widget.php&new_path=social-photo-feed-widget/tags/1.8/social-photo-feed-widget.php&old=3440215&new=3486529
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=social-photo-feed-widget/tags/1.7.8/trustindex-feed-plugin.class.php&new_path=social-photo-feed-widget/tags/1.8/trustindex-feed-plugin.class.php&old=3440215&new=3486529
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2584097a-8955-41c7-b009-c6502fe8b99b?source=cve

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