CVE-2025-12019
Featured Image <= 2.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.4 Medium
- Published
- Nov 11, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 21, 2025
Description
The Featured Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via image metadata in all versions up to, and including, 2.1 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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Featured Imagemervinpraison |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa16605a-12bd-48a8-b9a9-db53bf3c2c39?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/
- https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L26
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392100/
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