CVE-2026-5425
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedThe 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceThe Widgets for Social Photo Feed WordPress plugin versions up to 1.7.9 fails to properly sanitize and escape the 'feed_data' parameter keys, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript that persists in the database and executes when users view affected pages.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm the plugin is installedNavigate to WordPress admin > Plugins and locate 'Widgets for Social Photo Feed' in the list of installed pluginsAffected if The plugin appears in the installed plugins list
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Check the plugin versionIn the Plugins list, view the plugin details or check the plugin header in /wp-content/plugins/widgets-for-social-photo-feed/ for the Version fieldAffected if The installed version is lower than 1.7.10
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Identify if feed_data configuration existsCheck the WordPress database tables (typically wp_options or a custom table created by the plugin) for entries containing 'feed_data' using: SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name LIKE '%feed_data%';Affected if Records with feed_data configuration exist in the database
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Inspect stored feed_data values for XSS payloadsExamine the values in feed_data-related database entries for suspicious patterns such as <script>, javascript:, onload, onerror, or other HTML/JS injection attemptsAffected if Any feed_data values contain unsanitized HTML, script tags, or event handler attributes
A user is affected if the Widgets for Social Photo Feed plugin is installed with a version below 1.7.10 AND the feed_data parameter is being used, as the combination of outdated version and active configuration creates the stored XSS attack surface.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the plugin to a patched version once available. Until then, restrict unauthenticated access to feed creation/modification endpoints and implement output escaping using WordPress esc_html() and esc_attr() functions where feed_data keys are displayed.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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