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Header and Footer Scripts, CVE-2025-11453

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-11453

Published on
Jan 09, 2026
Research Description
The Header and Footer Scripts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the _inpost_head_script parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.2 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 2.2.2.
Status
vulnerable