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Shortlinks by Pretty Links <= 3.6.15 — Missing Authorization

CVE-2025-48247Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤3.6.15Update to 3.6.16 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links pretty-link

  1. Affected≤ 3.6.15
  2. Patched in3.6.16

Update to 3.6.16 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 3.6.15. Version 3.6.16 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.6.16, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to domiee13.

The PrettyLinks – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking, Marketing and Stripe Payments Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the search_results() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to search link statuses.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links

All 9
More vulnerabilities in PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 's' Parameter
≤3.6.20Update to 3.6.21
CVE-2026-5062
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via post_status
≤3.6.2Update to 3.6.3
CVE-2024-29770
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update
≤3.6.3Update to 3.6.4
CVE-2024-2326
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery via route
≤3.4.0Update to 3.4.1
CVE-2022-47149
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via track_link
<2.1.10Update to 2.1.10
CVE-2019-25147

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Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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