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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-11987
CVE-2025-11987:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-11987) in versions up to and including 2.2.7. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD CVE).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-80 (Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page). It has received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD CVE).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD CVE).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update the Visual Link Preview plugin to a version newer than 2.2.7 when available. The vulnerability has been identified and documented in the source code at specific locations (WordPress Plugin).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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