Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ClickWhale Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-0804

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
WordPress
Status
Clickwhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener And Click Tracker For Affiliate Links & Link Pages
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 January 2025

Summary

The ClickWhale plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to exploit stored cross-site scripting. This occurs due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of link titles. An attacker can inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which are executed whenever an affected user accesses these pages, potentially leading to various malicious outcomes.

Affected Version(s)

ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages * <= 2.4.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3219341/clic...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

SOPROBRO
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