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CVE-2025-12112: Insert Headers and Footers Code – HT Script <= 1.1.6 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-08 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Insert Headers and Footers Code – HT Script plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via adding scripts in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6 due to insufficient capability checks. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• htplugins Insert Headers and Footers Code – HT Script: through 1.1.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3387037%40insert-headers-and-footers-script&new=3387037%40insert-headers-and-footers-script&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f97ced40-c349-43b4-963f-2a49db4bbd4a?source=cve

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