elink – Embed Content <= 1.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insufficient Input Validation

Improper Input Validation
CVE CVE-2025-7507
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published August 14, 2025
Last Updated August 15, 2025
Researcher Shreyas Malhotra
Description

The elink – Embed Content plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Malicious Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0. This is due to the plugin not restricting URLS that can be supplied through the elink shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to supply an HTML file that can be leverged to redirect users to a malicious domain.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug elink-embed-content (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.0
Patched Version
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