CVE-2025-12661

CVE-2025-12661 is a medium severity vulnerability affecting the affected product.

Description: The Pollcaster Shortcode Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘height’ parameter in the ‘pollcaster’ shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is 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 […]

Affected Versions:
❌ Vulnerable: ≤ 1.0
✅ Safe: ≥ 1.1

Exploit Difficulty: EASY
⏱️ Time to exploit: < 1 hour
🛠️ Required skills: Basic web security knowledge
💰 Public exploits: Likely available

How to Fix:


- Check if you're running the affected product
- Verify version (vulnerable: ≤ 1.0)


- Update to ≥ 1.1 or later
- If patching is not immediately possible: restrict network exposure, apply least-privilege access


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


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