CVE-2025-68509
User Submitted Posts <= 20251121 - Unauthenticated Open Redirect
mediumURL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
5.3
CVSS Score
5.3
CVSS Score
medium
Severity
20251210
Patched in
5d
Time to patch
Description
The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 20251121. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect url supplied parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into performing an action.
CVSS Vector Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NAttack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
Technical Details
Affected versions
<=20251121PublishedJanuary 1, 2026
Last updatedJanuary 5, 2026
Affected pluginuser-submitted-posts
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