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CVE-2025-12019: Featured Image <= 2.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-11-11 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

• mervinpraison Featured Image: through 2.1

References

• https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L26
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L35
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L65
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392100/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa16605a-12bd-48a8-b9a9-db53bf3c2c39?source=cve
• https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md

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