CVE-2026-5725: Favicon Rotator <= 1.2.11 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'fvrt_' prefix

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 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: 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-13
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Favicon Rotator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'fvrt_' prefixed request parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

Archetyped Favicon Rotator: through 1.2.11

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3515020%40favicon-rotator%2Ftags%2F1.2.12&old=3118754%40favicon-rotator%2Ftags%2F1.2.11
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96fd3647-e006-430e-8252-6bd79263e02a?source=cve

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