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CVE-2025-12484: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in smub Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers

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VulnerabilityCVE-2025-12484cvecve-2025-12484cwe-79
Published: Wed Nov 19 2025 (11/19/2025, 07:46:07 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: smub
Product: Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers

Description

The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple social media username parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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AILast updated: 04/09/2026, 16:12:14 UTC

Technical Analysis

CVE-2025-12484 is a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin (versions up to 1.12.19). The issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of social media username parameters, enabling unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts. These scripts execute in the context of users visiting the affected pages, potentially leading to session hijacking or other script-based attacks. The vulnerability is rated with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N), reflecting network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction, scope change, and partial confidentiality and integrity impact without availability impact.

Potential Impact

Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the browsers of users visiting affected pages. This can lead to partial confidentiality and integrity compromise, such as theft of user session data or manipulation of page content. There is no direct impact on system availability. No known exploits in the wild have been reported.

Mitigation Recommendations

Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, users should consider disabling or restricting access to the vulnerable plugin to prevent exploitation. Avoid using untrusted input in social media username fields and monitor for suspicious activity related to the plugin.

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
Wordfence
Date Reserved
2025-10-29T19:11:25.942Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 691d774bfcf6450804cbcae4

Added to database: 11/19/2025, 7:52:43 AM

Last enriched: 4/9/2026, 4:12:14 PM

Last updated: 5/10/2026, 1:57:03 AM

Views: 114

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