Shortlinks by Pretty Links <= 3.6.15 - Missing Authorization

4.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-48247
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published May 19, 2025
Last Updated May 28, 2025
Researcher domiee13

Description

The PrettyLinks – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking, Marketing and Stripe Payments Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the search_results() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.15. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to search link statuses.

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Vulnerability Details for PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug pretty-link (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.6.16, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6.15
Patched Version
  • 3.6.16

Recent vulnerabilities in PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Shortlinks by Pretty Links <= 3.6.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via post_status CVE-2024-29770 6.1 Rafie Muhammad March 25, 2024
2 Pretty Links – Affiliate Links, Link Branding, Link Tracking & Marketing Plugin <= 3.6.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Settings Update CVE-2024-2326 4.3 Webbernaut March 22, 2024
3 Shortlinks by Pretty Links <= 3.4.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via route CVE-2022-47149 4.3 Muhammad Daffa April 13, 2023
4 Pretty Links <= 2.1.9 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via track_link CVE-2019-25147 7.2 Jerome Bruandet June 19, 2019
5 Pretty Links – Link Management, Branding, Tracking & Sharing Plugin <= 1.6.7 - SQL Injection CVE-2015-9457 7.2 Marcin Probola July 8, 2015
6 Pretty Links Lite < 1.6.3 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2013-1636 7.2 hip August 1, 2014
7 Pretty Links – Link Management, Branding, Tracking & Sharing Plugin < 1.5.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2011-4595 6.1 Am!r December 4, 2011

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