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Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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Dec 13, 2025Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team: Unauthorized tracking settings modificationCVE-2025-13403 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.3
The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized tracking settings modification due to missing authorization validation on the employee_spotlight_check_optin() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to enable or disable tracking settings.
- Product
- Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team
- Affected
- up to 5.1.3
- What to do
- Affects up to 5.1.3. Update Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Dec 11, 2025VigLink SpotLight By ShortCode: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2025-13843 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The VigLink SpotLight By ShortCode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'float' parameter of the 'spotlight' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.a due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
- Product
- VigLink SpotLight By ShortCode
- Affected
- up to 1.0.a
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.0.a. Update VigLink SpotLight By ShortCode to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Nov 1, 2025Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2025-12090 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social URLs in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.2 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.
- Product
- Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team
- Affected
- up to 5.1.2
- What to do
- Affects up to 5.1.2. Update Employee Spotlight – Team Member Showcase & Meet the Team to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgwordfence.com
Aug 28, 2025Employee Spotlight: Deserialization of Untrusted DataCVE-2025-53583 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by PatchstackHigh 8.1
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in emarket-design Employee Spotlight employee-spotlight allows Object Injection.This issue affects Employee Spotlight: from n/a through <= 5.1.1.
- Product
- Employee Spotlight
- Affected
- up to 5.1.1
- What to do
- Affects up to 5.1.1. Update Employee Spotlight to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
May 26, 2025Spotlight - Social Media Feeds (Premium): Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent DataCVE-2025-39498 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by PatchstackMedium 5.3
Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data vulnerability in Spotlight Spotlight - Social Media Feeds (Premium) allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects Spotlight - Social Media Feeds (Premium): from n/a through 1.7.1.
- Product
- Spotlight - Social Media Feeds (Premium)
- Affected
- up to 1.7.1
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.7.1. Update Spotlight - Social Media Feeds (Premium) to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Apr 4, 2025Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVE-2025-32261 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by PatchstackMedium 4.3
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Kuppuraj Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight wp-spotlight-search allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight: from n/a through <= 1.1.1.
- Product
- Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight
- Affected
- up to 1.1.1
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.1.1. Update Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Feb 17, 2025Spotlight Social Media Feeds: Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control SphereCVE-2025-26758 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by PatchstackMedium 5.3
Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere vulnerability in RebelCode Spotlight Social Media Feeds spotlight-social-photo-feeds allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data.This issue affects Spotlight Social Media Feeds: from n/a through <= 1.7.1.
- Product
- Spotlight Social Media Feeds
- Affected
- up to 1.7.1
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.7.1. Update Spotlight Social Media Feeds to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Dec 20, 2024Spotlightr: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-11411 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The Spotlightr plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'spotlightr-v' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
- Product
- Spotlightr
- Affected
- up to 0.1.11
- What to do
- Affects up to 0.1.11. Update Spotlightr to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Apr 15, 2024Spotlight Social Media Feeds: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVE-2024-31381 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by PatchstackMedium 4.3
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in RebelCode Spotlight Social Media Feeds.This issue affects Spotlight Social Media Feeds: from n/a through 1.6.10.
- Product
- Spotlight Social Media Feeds
- Affected
- up to 1.6.10
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.6.10. Update Spotlight Social Media Feeds to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordpatchstack.compatchstack.com
Feb 13, 2023Spotlight Social Feeds: Does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embedCVE-2023-0379 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
The Spotlight Social Feeds WordPress plugin before 1.4.3 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
- Product
- Spotlight Social Feeds
- Fixed in
- 1.4.3
- What to do
- Update Spotlight Social Feeds to 1.4.3 or newer.
Jul 2, 2014Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in library/includes/payment/paypalexpress/DoDirectPayment.php in the Spotlight (spotlightyour) plugin 4.7 and earlier fCVE-2014-4552 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by MITREMedium 4.3
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in library/includes/payment/paypalexpress/DoDirectPayment.php in the Spotlight (spotlightyour) plugin 4.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the paymentType parameter.
- Product
- Spotlight (spotlightyour)
- Affected
- up to 4.7
- What to do
- Affects up to 4.7. Update Spotlight (spotlightyour) to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordcodevigilant.comcodevigilant.com
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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