Known vulnerabilities in Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget

Display X posts (Twitter tweets) from any public user account in a clean, attractive looking feed that updates weekly.

7Reported vulnerabilities

7.2Highest CVSS score

2.8.0Latest version

100,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget to 2.5.5 or later. 7 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: August 10, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2024-8983	Medium 4.8	0.4%	Before 2.2.3	`2.2.3`	October 8, 2024
CVE-2026-6177	High 7.2	0.5%	0 to 2.5.4 (inclusive)	`2.5.5`	May 13, 2026
CVE-2024-0379	Medium 4.3	1.0%	Before 2.2.2	`2.2.2`	February 29, 2024
CVE-2025-1314	Medium 4.3	0.2%	0 to 2.2.5 (inclusive)	`2.3.0`	March 20, 2025
CVE-2024-49685	Medium 4.3	0.2%	2.2.3 and earlier	`2.2.4`	October 21, 2024
CVE-2023-52136	Medium 4.3	0.2%	2.1.2 and earlier	`2.2`	December 28, 2023
CVE-2022-33974	Medium 4.3	0.2%	Before 2.0	`2.0`	May 25, 2023

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.