CVE-2025-12471

CVSS 6.1 Medium
  • CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Published: 2025-11-06T07:15:43.510

The Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘dpsp_list_attention_search’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.36.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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How to fix CVE-2025-12471

CVE-2025-12471 is a medium severity vulnerability affecting the affected product.

Description: The Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘dpsp_list_attention_search’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.36.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that […]

Affected Versions:
❌ Vulnerable: ≤ 1.36.0
✅ Safe: ≥ 1.36.1

Exploit Difficulty: MEDIUM
⏱️ Time to exploit: 1-4 hours
🛠️ Required skills: Intermediate security knowledge
💰 Public exploits: May be available

How to Fix:

1 Identify affected systems

- Check if you're running the affected product
- Verify version (vulnerable: ≤ 1.36.0)

2 Immediate actions

- Update to ≥ 1.36.1 or later
- If patching is not immediately possible: restrict network exposure, apply least-privilege access

3 Verification

- Test the fix in a staging environment first
- Review logs for signs of exploitation
- Monitor for IOCs (Indicators of Compromise)

4 Long-term prevention

- Enable automatic security updates
- Set up vulnerability monitoring
- Review and harden security configurations

Exploit Difficulty Assessment

MEDIUM
⏱️ Time to Exploit: 1-4 hours
🛠️ Skills Required: Intermediate security knowledge
💰 Public Exploits: May be available

Affected Versions

❌ Vulnerable: ≤ 1.36.0
✅ Safe: ≥ 1.36.1

Vulnerability Timeline

Nov 06, 2025
Vulnerability Published

CVE details first published to NVD database

Nov 12, 2025
Imported to Database

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