CVE-2025-12019

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-21 | Published 2025-11-11 | Updated 2025-11-12 | Assigner Wordfence

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Timeline

Credits

Chris finder

References

github.com/.../wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md exploit

www.wordfence.com/...-12bd-48a8-b9a9-db53bf3c2c39?source=cve

wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/

github.com/.../wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ge/tags/2.1/featured-image.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ge/tags/2.1/featured-image.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...ge/tags/2.1/featured-image.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-12019)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12019)

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