WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Visual Link Preview < 2.2.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via visual-link-preview Shortcode

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.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
visual-link-preview
Fixed in 2.2.8

References

CVE
CVE-2025-11987
URL
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/65ae3119-61d1-4ec0-8ba2-352aae5cc834

Classification

Type
CROSS FRAME SCRIPTING
OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-80
CVSS
6.4 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rafshanzani Suhada
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
9a1dcd24-30cb-4ac2-a34d-d33739030540

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-11-04 (about 7 months ago)
Added
2025-11-04 (about 7 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-11-05 (about 7 months ago)

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