Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget: Cross-site request forgery
Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget is affected by cross-site request forgery. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget
- Plugin slug
custom-twitter-feeds- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 20, 2025
This CVE was published Mar 20, 2025 and is one of 7 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2025-1314
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress.org plugin page wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com