{"id":"CVE-2025-12019","title":"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","summary":"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 auth…","severity":"medium","cvss":4.4,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","cwe":["CWE-79"],"vendor":"mer.vin","product":"featured_image","affected":["featured_image <= 2.1"],"published":"2025-11-11","updated":"2026-10-07","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-07T21:10:00.200","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12019","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L26","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L35","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L65","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392100/","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa16605a-12bd-48a8-b9a9-db53bf3c2c39?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md","label":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00479,"epssPercentile":0.39309,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-07T21:54:15.011Z","slug":"CVE-2025-12019","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `featured_image <= 2.1`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":24,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":24.2,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}