CVE-2025-12019The 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 esc…
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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.
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 7, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
mer.vin featured_image mer.vin:featured_image | through 2.1 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.mdexploit, third-party-advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L26url-repurposed
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L35url-repurposed
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L65url-repurposed
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392100/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/release-notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa16605a-12bd-48a8-b9a9-db53bf3c2c39?source=cvethird-party-advisory
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