Head Meta Data <= 20250327 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2025-66081
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published December 14, 2025
Last Updated December 19, 2025
Researcher Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada)
Description

The Head Meta Data plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 20250327 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug head-meta-data (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 20250327
Patched Version
  • 20251118
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