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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-2874

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.4

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

Affected Products

Vendor: specialk

Product: User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.49% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2874
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b212a1a-0e2b-4327-93b5-398bd7a36b5c?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3263067%40user-submitted-posts&new=3263067%40user-submitted-posts&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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