CVE-2025-12471
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Publication date: 2025-11-06

Last updated on: 2025-11-06

Assigner: Wordfence

Description
The Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'dpsp_list_attention_search' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.36.0 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.

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Published
2025-11-06
Last Modified
2025-11-06
Generated
2026-07-06
AI Q&A
2025-11-06
EPSS Evaluated
2026-07-05
NVD
CVE-2025-12471
EUVD
EUVD-2025-37978

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wordpress wordpress *
hubbub_lite social_sharing_and_follow_buttons_plugin 1.36.0

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CWE ID Description
CWE-79 The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in the Hubbub Lite WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 1.36.0). It occurs because the plugin does not properly sanitize or escape input from the 'dpsp_list_attention_search' parameter. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by injecting malicious scripts into web pages, which execute when a user is tricked into clicking a crafted link.

Impact Analysis

This vulnerability can allow attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the affected website, potentially leading to theft of user data, session hijacking, or performing actions on behalf of the user without their consent. Since it requires user interaction (clicking a link), it can be used in phishing attacks to compromise user security and trust.

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