Name: CVE-2025-11987: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-11-05T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-11987, CWE-80, CVSS 6.4, EPSS 0.00028

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.4
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Visual Link Preview Plugin	—	Update visual-link-preview plugin to version 2.2.8, or a newer patched version	Nov 5, 2025	Nov 4, 2025

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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