CVE-2025-0804

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.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3219341/clickwhale/tags/2.4.2/includes/admin/links/Clickwhale_Links_List_Table.php	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bf41b5e1-610e-4159-9325-f7a694380050?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:flowdee:clickwhale:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2025-01-29 04:15

Updated : 2025-05-23 15:27

NVD link : CVE-2025-0804

Mitre link : CVE-2025-0804

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-0804

JSON object : View

Products Affected

flowdee

clickwhale

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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