CVE-2025-12019

MediumCVSS 4.4

Published: 11/11/2025(UTC)Updated: 07/10/2026(UTC)Translated: 08/10/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.48%

39th percentile - higher than 39% of all known CVEs

Summary

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. Authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions and above can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with administrator privileges can inject malicious scripts that execute in a user's browser, potentially leading to session theft or other attacks.

Recommendation

Upgrade the Featured Image plugin to a version later than 2.1, which contains a fix for this issue.

Other vulnerabilities in Featured Image

CVE-2026-57431Medium
The Featured Image plugin for WordPress version 2.1 and earlier contains a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the author function. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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