Medium severity · published Nov 11, 2025
CVE-2025-12019
Featured Image <= 2.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
5.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FI
Featured Image · mervinpraison
through 2.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12019
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12019
Exploit
https://github.com/zast-ai/vulnerability-reports/blob/main/wordpress/plugin/featured-image/stored-xss.md
URL Repurposed
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L26
URL Repurposed
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L35
URL Repurposed
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image/tags/2.1/featured-image.php#L65
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3392100/
Release Notes
https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image/
