CVE-2025-2874: Specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users To Submit Posts From The Front End

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 20240319 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• Specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users To Submit Posts From The Front End: up to and including 20241026

Published 2025-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.