High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Dec 6, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-12499

Description

The Rich Shortcodes for Google Reviews plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the contents of a Google Review in all versions up to, and including, 6.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. NOTE: This vulnerability was partially patched in version 6.6.2.

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Affected products

Rich Shortcodes for Google Reviews/Rich Shortcodes for Google Reviewsllm-create
Range: <=6.8
WordPress/Rich Shortcodes for Google Reviewswp-canonicalize

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3389203/widget-google-reviewsnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3411521/widget-google-reviewsnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e2960224-4446-4fc6-8d18-6f9911b4cbadnvd

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