Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-11262

Title: Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Link Whisper Free plugin

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2025-11262

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date May 29, 2026

Modified Date May 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.2 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.23%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-11262: The Link Whisper Free plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the user_id parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.9.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Impacted Vendors

Analysis in Progress...

Reference Links

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/link-whisper/trunk/core/Wpil/Settings.php#L883 https://wordpress.org/plugins/link-whisper/#developers https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ad159b18-0ad1-4cab-932e-6850cf7a867f?source=cve

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-11262 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

GitHub https://github.com/rootdirective-sec/CVE-2025-11262-Lab

View Code

May 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.