Vulnerability · Published Jun 13, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2025-5926Link Shield <= 0.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Medium 6.1

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A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in Link Shield from jconti. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 97.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Link Shield plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 0.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the link_shield_menu_options() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
jconti	Link Shield	0 – through 0.5.4

Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Affected products (as reported)

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