CVE-2025-12629 CVSS 7.1 HIGH

CVE-2025-12629

Published: 2025-11-24 06:15:46

Last Modified: 2026-04-15 00:35:42

Description

The Broken Link Manager WordPress plugin through 0.6.5 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

7.1

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Broken Link Manager <= 0.6.5

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

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References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12629
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12629
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-12629/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-12629
[5] https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/528e9775-3a2d-4e52-92f7-f123ad787e7d/

Raw JSON Data

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