---
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'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `featured_image <= 2.1`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.