CVE-2025-0804
ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages <= 2.4.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Published 21 mo ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
Summary
The ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via link titles in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
CISA SSVC assessment
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 21 mo ago
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.26% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVD | 3.1 | 5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
Affected products
- clickwhale ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
References
- wordfence.com /threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bf41b5e1-610e-4159-9325-f7a694380050?source=cve
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org /changeset/3219341/clickwhale/tags/2.4.2/includes/admin/links/Clickwhale_Links_List_Table.
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2025-0804
- NVD: CVE-2025-0804
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