CVE-2025-11987
The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.22% probability · 13th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-80
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visual-link-preview/tags/2.2.7/includes/public/class-vlp-link.php#L56
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/visual-link-preview/tags/2.2.7/templates/link/simple/simple.php#L1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3388877/visual-link-preview/trunk/templates/link/simple/simple.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/65ae3119-61d1-4ec0-8ba2-352aae5cc834?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.