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CVE-2025-12019
Featured Image <= 2.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Medium4.4EPSS 0.51%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
Affected products
mervinpraison · Featured Image
- affected ≤ 2.1
References (7)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa16605a-12bd-48a8-b9a9-db53bf3c2c39?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L26 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L35 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L65 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392100/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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