CVE-2025-2874

MEDIUM 4.4

User Submitted Posts <= 20241026 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVSS Score

4.4

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-79
Vendor	specialk
Product	user submitted posts – enable users to submit posts from the front end
Published	Apr 3, 2025
Last Updated	Apr 8, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

specialk / User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End

0 ≤ 20241026

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8b212a1a-0e2b-4327-93b5-398bd7a36b5c?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: 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=

Credits

Quang Bach