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CVE-2025-2874

MEDIUM 4.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
April 3, 2025
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Deferred
Reported by
security@wordfence.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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 WordPress components

  • User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End Plugin · user-submitted-posts
    Confirmed match Active
    Up to and including 20241026
    View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End — Up to and including 20241026

References

  • plugins.trac.wordpress.org 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=
  • www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b212a1a-0e2b-4327-93b5-398bd7a36b5c?source=cve
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record