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Dec 12, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-12667
Home page URL: Security reports for GitHub Gist Shortcode Plugin
Application: GitHub Gist Shortcode Plugin
Date: Nov 11, 2025
Research Description: The GitHub Gist Shortcode Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' parameter of the 'gist' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 0.2.
Status: vulnerable