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CVE-2025-2874: User Submitted Posts <= 20241026 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2025-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 20240319 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

• specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End: through 20241026

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3263067%40user-submitted-posts&new=3263067%40user-submitted-posts&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b212a1a-0e2b-4327-93b5-398bd7a36b5c?source=cve

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