CVE-2025-12118
The Schema Scalpel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the post title in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping when outputting user-supplied data into…
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 Schema Scalpel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the post title in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping when outputting user-supplied data into JSON-LD schema markup. 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-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://github.com/kevingillispie/Schema-Scalpel/commit/0a24430ed4f99a3998d032e755cd97a57d4fae29
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/schema-scalpel/tags/1.6.1/public/class-schema-scalpel-public.php#L146
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/schema-scalpel/tags/1.6.1/public/class-schema-scalpel-public.php#L183
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9289e93c-22ac-4f3f-8a8a-591d9a598713?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.