WordPress plugin · gmap-embed
Is Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress safe?
A flaw affects the current version.
The newest release on wordpress.org, 1.9.7, is inside the affected range of CVE-2021-24130, so there may be no fix yet. Check the changelog; if it doesn’t mention the fix, deactivate it until it does.
- Flaws on record
- 7
- High or critical
- 1
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 1.9.7
- Last updated
- Aug 15, 2026
- Active installs
- 10,000+
Every recorded flaw
- Feb 15, 2025Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2024-13306 · fixed in 1.9.4 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.3
- Feb 15, 2025Maps Plugin using Google Maps for WordPress: Does not sanitise and escape some of its settingsCVE-2024-13208 · fixed in 1.9.4 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.3
- Feb 28, 2022Maps Plugin using Google Maps for: Does not have CSRF checks in most of its AJAX actionsCVE-2021-25081 · fixed in 1.8.4 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.5
- Feb 28, 2022Maps Plugin using Google Maps for: Does not have proper authorisation and CSRF in most of its AJAX actionsCVE-2021-25011 · fixed in 1.8.1 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.7
- Jan 25, 2022The Privilege Escalation vulnerability discovered in the WP Google Map WordPress plugin (versions <= 1.8.0) allows authenticated low-role users to create, edit,CVE-2021-45729 · affects up to 1.8.0 · reported by PatchstackMedium 5.4
- Aug 9, 2021WP Google Map: Did not sanitise or escape the Map Title before outputting them in the pageCVE-2021-24502 · fixed in 1.7.7 · reported by WPScanMedium 4.8
- Mar 18, 2021Unvalidated input in the WP Google Map Plugin WordPress plugin, versions before 4.1.5, in the Manage Locations page within the plugin settings was vulnerable toCVE-2021-24130 · fixed in 4.1.5 · reported by WPScan1.4% oddsHigh 7.2
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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