Plugins · visual-link-preview · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Visual Link Preview safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 2.4.2
- Last updated
- 2026-08-19
- Active installs
- 10,000+
- Known issues on record
- 6
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 7.1.4
Display a fully customizable visual link preview for any internal or external link. — by Brecht
What to do
- Update to the latest version (2.4.2). Anything older than 2.4.2 has at least one known issue listed below. Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan.
With WP-CLI: wp plugin get visual-link-preview --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update visual-link-preview updates it.
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Known vulnerabilities
6 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.
high 7.4 CVE-2026-54821 · published 2026-06-25
Information disclosure in Visual Link Preview (2.3.1 and older)
- Affected
- 2.3.1 and older
- Fixed in
- 2.4.0
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Subscriber Sensitive Data Exposure in Visual Link Preview <= 2.3.1 versions.
medium 6.5 CVE-2026-48878 · published 2026-06-15
Information disclosure in Visual Link Preview (2.4.1 and older)
- Affected
- 2.4.1 and older
- Fixed in
- 2.4.2
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Subscriber Sensitive Data Exposure in Visual Link Preview <= 2.4.1 versions.
medium 6.0 CVE-2026-39670 · published 2026-04-08
Server-side request forgery (SSRF) in Visual Link Preview (2.3.0 and older)
- Affected
- 2.3.0 and older
- Fixed in
- 2.3.1 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Brecht Visual Link Preview visual-link-preview allows Server Side Request Forgery.This issue affects Visual Link Preview: from n/a through <= 2.3.0.
medium 6.5 CVE-2026-24984 · published 2026-02-03
Missing authorization check in Visual Link Preview (2.2.9 and older)
- Affected
- 2.2.9 and older
- Fixed in
- 2.3.0
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Brecht Visual Link Preview visual-link-preview allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Visual Link Preview: from n/a through <= 2.2.9.
medium 6.4 CVE-2025-11987 · published 2025-11-05
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Visual Link Preview (2.2.7 and older)
- Affected
- 2.2.7 and older
- Fixed in
- 2.2.8 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Visual Link Preview plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's visual-link-preview shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.2.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
NVD CVE-2025-11987Wordfence advisoryCode change (fix)Plugin source
medium 5.4 CVE-2021-24635 · published 2021-09-20
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in Visual Link Preview (older than 2.2.3)
- Affected
- older than 2.2.3
- Fixed in
- 2.2.3
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- NVD analysis · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL
Recent activity
- 2026-08-19 — latest release on wordpress.org (2.4.2).
- 2026-06-25 — Information disclosure disclosed (CVE-2026-54821), fixed in 2.4.0.
- 2026-06-15 — Information disclosure disclosed (CVE-2026-48878), fixed in 2.4.2.
- 2026-04-08 — Server-side request forgery (SSRF) disclosed (CVE-2026-39670), fixed in 2.3.1.
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Browse vulnerabilities
- Published this week
- Unpatched in the latest version
- By type of vulnerability
- Plugins by Brecht (5 tracked)
Types found in this plugin: Sensitive data exposure (2) · Server-side request forgery (SSRF) (1) · Missing authorization (1) · Cross-site scripting (XSS) (1) · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/visual-link-preview (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.
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