User Submitted Posts <= 20251121 - Unauthenticated Open Redirect

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
CVE CVE-2025-68509
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published January 1, 2026
Last Updated January 5, 2026
Researcher benzdeus
Description

The User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to, and including, 20251121. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect url supplied parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to redirect users to potentially malicious sites if they can successfully trick them into performing an action.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-submitted-posts (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 20251121
Patched Version
  • 20251210
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