CVE-2026-2433
CVE-2026-2433 — RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging <= 5.0.11 - Unauthenticated DOM-Based Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via postMessage
The RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, News Feeds, Feed to Post, and Autoblogging plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via postMessage in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.11. This is due to the plugin's admin-shell.js registering a global message event listener without origin validation (missing event.origin check) and directly passing user-controlled URLs to window.open() without URL scheme validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of an authenticated administrator's session by tricking them into visiting a malicious website that sends crafted postMessage payloads to the plugin's admin page.
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, Wordfence
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
0%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
6.1
MEDIUM
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
No
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Partial
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (1)
Products (1)
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM | — | — | cvelistV5 |
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-79
References
6 on the record
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/311960e7-c4b4-4638-980f-1e08ffa621ba?source=cve
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/core/js/admin-shell.js#L58
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/tags/5.0.10/core/js/admin-shell.js#L58
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/trunk/core/js/admin-shell.js#L153
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-rss-aggregator/tags/5.0.10/core/js/admin-shell.js#L153
reference
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3473511%40wp-rss-aggregator%2Ftrunk&old=3439393%40wp-rss-aggregator%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
reference
Elsewhere on this site
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.