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BetterLinks – Shorten, Track and Manage any URL <= 1.2.5 — Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2021-24812Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.2.6Update to 1.2.6 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium5.4
CVSS
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

BetterLinks – Link Shortener, Link Cloaking, Redirects, Affiliate Link Manager & MCP betterlinks

  1. Affected< 1.2.6
  2. Patched in1.2.6

Update to 1.2.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.2.6. Version 1.2.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under BetterLinks – Link Shortener, Link Cloaking, Redirects, Affiliate Link Manager & MCP.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch BetterLinks – Link Shortener, Link Cloaking, Redirects, Affiliate Link Manager & MCP to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Huy Nguyen.

The BetterLinks WordPress plugin before 1.2.6 does not sanitise and escape some of imported link fields, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues when an admin import a malicious CSV.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Medium6.5Improper Authorization to Data Import and Export
≤1.6.0Update to 1.6.1
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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