Link Shield, CVE-2025-5926

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-5926
Home page URL: Security reports for Link Shield
Application: Link Shield
Published on: Jun 13, 2025
Research Description: The Link Shield plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the link_shield_menu_options() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Affected versions: Min -, max 0.5.4.
Status: vulnerable