{"id":"CVE-2025-12019","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-12019","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:14:02.460Z","title":"The Featured Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via image metadata in all versions up to, and including, 2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.","description":"The Featured Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via image metadata in all versions up to, and including, 2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.","published":"2025-11-11T04:15:46.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-07T21:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["mer.vin/featured image"],"epss":{"score":0.00513,"percentile":0.43466,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.51%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L26","tags":["URL Repurposed"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L35","tags":["URL Repurposed"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L65","tags":["URL Repurposed"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392100/","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa16605a-12bd-48a8-b9a9-db53bf3c2c39?source=cve","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12019","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}