CVE-2026-12002

Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin <= 6.11.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to oEmbed Access Token Overwrite via 'sbi_access_token' Parameter

2026-07-08 00:00
normaandersonfrank

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 6.11.2
Affected Plugin
Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin
Affected Version
<= 6.11.1
CVSS
4.7Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2026-12002
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At a glance

CVE-2026-12002 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.11.1. It carries a CVSS score of 4.7 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 6.11.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2026, reported by normaandersonfrank.

Vulnerability Overview

The Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 6.11.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the maybe_connection_data function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to overwrite the site's Instagram and Facebook oEmbed access tokens via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed <= 6.11.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed the fix is 6.11.2: builds <= 6.11.1 are affected, anything from 6.11.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.11.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed 6.11.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12002https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/abe6366a-3729-474f-8920-b5ed2eeab906https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12002

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