CVE-2025-11987
MediumCVSS 6.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs
Summary
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 allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Risk Assessment
An attacker with contributor privileges can inject malicious scripts that execute in visitors' browsers, potentially leading to session theft or actions on behalf of users.
Recommendation
Update the Visual Link Preview plugin to a version later than 2.2.7 once a fix is available, and restrict contributor privileges.
Other vulnerabilities in Visual Link Preview
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There is a vulnerability in versions of Visual Link Preview up to 2.4.1 that exposes sensitive subscriber data.
- CVE-2026-39670Medium
A Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the Visual Link Preview plugin allows sending requests from the server to internal resources. The issue affects versions up to and including 2.3.0.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS