CVE-2025-2874
low-risk
Published 2025-04-03
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.16% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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4
CVSS 4.4/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ HIGH complexity
20
/ 100
low-risk
Severity
14/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
1/34 · Minimal
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal