Visual Link Preview, CVE-2025-11987

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-11987
Home page URL: Security reports for Visual Link Preview
Application: Visual Link Preview
Published on: Nov 05, 2025
Research Description: The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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 2.2.8.
Status: vulnerable