TI-2025-00677 Aliases CVE-2025-0804 GHSA-vg86-8433-4hr2

Cross-site scripting in ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for…

LOW 28CWE-79Published 2025-01-29 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

The ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via link titles in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.1 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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00261 17th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
ClickWhale	ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages	up to 2.4.1	—	No fix listed	CNA

ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages VendorClickWhale Affected up to 2.4.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:flowdee:clickwhale::::::wordpress::*	before 2.4.2	Vulnerable	ClickWhale

cpe:2.3:a:flowdee:clickwhale:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* Versions before 2.4.2 Vulnerable ·ClickWhale

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-0804
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vg86-8433-4hr2

References

Patch 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3219341/clickwhale/tags/2.4.2/includes/admin/links/Clickwhale_Links_List_Table.php

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bf41b5e1-610e-4159-9325-f7a694380050?source=cve

TI-2025-30109 WordPress ClickWhale plugin <= 2.4.6 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2025-19834 WordPress ClickWhale plugin <= 2.4.3 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Settings Change vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2024-34629 WordPress ClickWhale plugin <= 2.4.1 - SQL Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5
TI-2024-10493 Cross-site scripting in ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1

Sources

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