CVE-2025-11987

Visual Link Preview <= 2.2.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via visual-link-preview Shortcode

6.4 Medium

The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: Low
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Exploit likelihood

0.24%Up 0.2 points since Nov 5, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 6.4

Visual Link Preview <= 2.2.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via visual-link-preview Shortcode

Record: CVE-2025-11987
CVSS 3.1: 6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-80
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-37772 6.4

Record: EUVD-2025-37772
CVSS 3.1: 6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-wjrf-gc3h-428q 6.4

The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the...

Record: GHSA-wjrf-gc3h-428q
CVSS 3.1: 6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-80
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD 6.4

Record: CVE-2025-11987
CVSS 3.1: 6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness: CWE-80
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-11987 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.4) in Brecht Visual Link Preview, published November 5, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.24%, the 15th percentile. No source names a fixed version.