ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages <= 2.4.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2025-0804
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 28, 2025
Last Updated September 5, 2025
Researcher SOPROBRO

Description

The ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via link titles in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Vulnerability Details for ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug clickwhale (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.4.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.1
Patched Version
  • 2.4.2

Recent vulnerabilities in ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 ClickWhale <= 2.5.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL injection CVE-2025-10002 4.9 Naoya Takahashi (nakko) September 19, 2025
2 ClickWhale <= 2.4.6 - Missing Authorization CVE-2025-47612 4.3 Nabil Irawan May 7, 2025
3 ClickWhale <= 2.4.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2025-26963 4.3 Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh February 13, 2025
4 ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages <= 2.4.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-11327 6.1 vgo0 January 10, 2025
5 ClickWhale – Link Manager, Link Shortener and Click Tracker for Affiliate Links & Link Pages <= 2.4.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection CVE-2024-51715 6.5 Trương Hữu Phúc (truonghuuphuc) January 6, 2025

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