CVE-2026-6177 | Custom Twitter Feeds <= 2.5.4 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Cached Tweet Text

The Custom Twitter Feeds plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to and including 2.5.4. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the CTF_Display_Elements::get_post_text() function when rendering cached tweet text. The plugin's ctf_get_more_posts AJAX action is available to unauthenticated users and directly outputs cached tweet data through nl2br() without HTML escaping. When an attacker can get malicious content into cached tweet data (either by tweeting content that gets cached by the site's feed configuration, or through other vulnerabilities), the malicious HTML/JavaScript is executed when the unauthenticated endpoint is accessed. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the affected endpoint.

Published: 2026-05-13 Last update: 2026-05-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-6177 is rated Moderate Risk (41.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.16%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-6177

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-14 0.16%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-6177

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
3.9 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-6177

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-6177

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2026-6177

URL Tags
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/custom-twitter-feed.php#L447
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L505
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L521
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/tags/2.5.4/templates/item.php#L36
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php#L447
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L505
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/inc/CTF_Display_Elements.php#L521
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/templates/item.php#L36
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3519584%40custom-twitter-feeds&old=3481416%40custom-twitter-feeds
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e4b2178f-e4da-4bfb-9c27-8c1884499769?source=cve
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