Tainacan <= 1.0.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- 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 Tainacan plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'search' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Why it matters now
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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12746
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-37g4-vx3r-j5q5
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/014dd0ee-0bd0-477c-a0fa-bde8ce5a099c?source=cve
- https://github.com/tainacan/tainacan/blob/2491612ee9d5b14baa70862ba2308ee925de0938/src/classes/theme-helper/template-tags.php#L1652
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3395909/tainacan/trunk/classes/theme-helper/template-tags.php
More tainacan vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-20253 WordPress Tainacan plugin <= 0.20.7 - Broken Access Control vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-30963 WordPress Tainacan plugin <= 1.0.3 - SQL Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2025-30009 WordPress Tainacan plugin <= 0.21.14 - Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-05467 Tainacan <= 1.0.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'geoquery' REST API Parameter CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2024-32242 WordPress Tainacan plugin <= 0.21.8 - SQL Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5
- TI-2024-06604 Tainacan <= 0.21.7 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-12746 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-12746 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-37g4-vx3r-j5q5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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