CVE-2025-7400 Cross-site scripting in Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via featured image fields, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-7400?
CVE-2025-7400 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in marceljm Featured Image from URL (FIFU), published on 7 Oct 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Featured Image from URL (FIFU) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a post's Featured Image custom fields in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. NOTE: This vulnerability was partially fixed in version 5.2.2.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-7400?
How do I fix CVE-2025-7400?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-7400 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2025-7400 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-7400 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wcvg-98r2-g94v.