User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End, CVE-2025-2874

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-2874
Home page URL: Security reports for User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
Application: User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
Published on: Apr 03, 2025
Research Description: 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.
Affected versions: max 20250327.
Status: vulnerable