Word Balloon

Word Balloon has 3 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2022 and 2024; all 3 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.5, and the most serious one scores 8.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 1 high.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 1 of the records (33%). Other recurring categories include Cross-Site Scripting, PHP Remote File Inclusion.

Every one of the 3 issues recorded for Word Balloon has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

3 independent researchers contributed these findings, one record each. Word Balloon is installed on roughly 10,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
6.5/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

3

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 8.8CVE-2024-35781

Word Balloon <= 4.21.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion

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Vulnerability Records

3 records
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Latestv4.23.2

Word Balloon

YAHMAN

Author

YAHMAN

5.0(8)
100/100
Last Updated
2026-08-22 (22d ago)
Active Installs
10,000+
Downloads
373,769
Requires WP
3.9.3+
Requires PHP
5.3+
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Created
2018-03-11 (9y ago)

Word Balloon will easy to add speech balloon in your post. There’s a wide variety of speech balloon. Other than this, there are function to add effect , filter, icon ,sound. Support for Block editor(Gutenberg) & Classic Editor. Translation ready and currently translated in Japanese(日本語). Related links (English): Word Balloon PRO Related links (Japanese): Documentation Demo Word Balloon PRO

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