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Visual Link Preview vulnerabilities
Visual Link Preview has 2 known vulnerabilities in this database. The most recent published record is dated 5 Nov 2025.
- Known vulnerabilities
- 2
- Active installs
- 10,000+
- Latest version
- 2.4.2
- Last updated
- 19 Aug 2026
- Most recent
- 5 Nov 2025
Find it in your WordPress dashboard under Plugins. Severity is based on the CVSS score published with the CVE where one is available.
| Vulnerability | Severity | Affected | Fix | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-site scripting (XSS) CVE-2025-11987 | Medium 6.4 | Up to 2.2.7 | Fixed in a later version (latest 2.4.2) | 5 Nov 2025 |
| Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) CVE-2021-24635 | Medium 5.4 | Before 2.2.3 | Fixed in 2.2.3 | 20 Sep 2021 |
Read the published descriptions
- CVE-2025-11987, 5 Nov 2025
- 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. CVE record
- CVE-2021-24635, 20 Sep 2021
- The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL CVE record
What to do if you run Visual Link Preview
If you run Visual Link Preview, open WordPress and check the installed version in Plugins. Compare it with the affected versions in the vulnerability record. If a fixed version is available, take a current backup and update to that version or the latest supported release.
If no fixed version exists, consider disabling and removing the plugin or replacing it with a maintained alternative. After dealing with the affected software, check administrator users, unexpected file changes, redirects, unfamiliar pages and security logs for signs that the site may already have been altered.
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