WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2025-12484 Deferred

Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers: Cross-site scripting

Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers is affected by cross-site scripting. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.

CVE / CNA score 7.2 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers
Plugin slug
rafflepress
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Nov 19, 2025
Weakness
CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published Nov 19, 2025 and is one of 10 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical description

The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple social media username parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.19 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.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources