PT-2025-47695 · WordPress · Pollcaster Shortcode Plugin

Zakaria · CVE-2025-12661 · Published 2025-11-21 · Updated 2025-11-21

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pollcaster Shortcode Plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.1

Description The Pollcaster Shortcode Plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the height parameter within the 'pollcaster' shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the affected page.

Recommendations Update the Pollcaster Shortcode Plugin to version 1.1 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-12661

Affected Products

Pollcaster Shortcode Plugin

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12661 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/37907 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1991776221995393467 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pollcaster-shortcode/tags/1.0/pollcaster.php#L33 · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1991816680201150516 · Twitter Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/pollcaster-shortcode · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/120ba9e5-9594-4a4f-b475-ef3fcf5f4565?source=cve · Note