---
id: CVE-2025-12077
title: >-
  The WP to LinkedIn Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to
  Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via PostMessage in all versions up to, and
  including, 1.9.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping
summary: >-
  The WP to LinkedIn Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to
  Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via PostMessage in all versions up to, and
  including, 1.9.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.
  This makes it po…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
published: '2025-12-13'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T20:10:01.970'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12077'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/linkedin-auto-publish/trunk/js/notice.js
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3412103%40linkedin-auto-publish&new=3412103%40linkedin-auto-publish&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b680132a-f397-4636-98b2-bcd8c168e822?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00249
epssPercentile: 0.14756
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T20:46:46.925Z'
---

## Overview

The WP to LinkedIn Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via PostMessage in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## Remediation

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