AffiliateWP – External Referral Links

AffiliateWP – External Referral Links has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 4.4, and the most serious one scores 4.4 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for AffiliateWP – External Referral Links has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Nabil Irawan. AffiliateWP – External Referral Links is installed on roughly 700 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.8.8.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
4.4/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

1

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 4.4CVE-2025-53460

AffiliateWP – External Referral Links <= 1.2.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records
AffiliateWP – External Referral Links banner
Latestv1.2.2

AffiliateWP – External Referral Links

Syed Balkhi

Author

Syed Balkhi

3.0(2)
60/100
Last Updated
2025-08-27 (1y ago)
Active Installs
700+
Downloads
19,427
Requires WP
5.2+
Requires PHP
7.4+
Tested up to
WP 6.8.8
Created
2015-05-28 (12y ago)

This plugin was built to be used in conjunction with AffiliateWP. Like other affiliate plugins, AffiliateWP must be installed on the same domain as your e-commerce system (Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce etc) to properly track visits and referrals. This plugin allows your affiliates to promote any landing page (or site) that exists on a completely separate domain. Simply install this plugin on the external WordPress site and your affiliates can now promote it using the site’s URL and their affiliate ID or username appended (eg /?ref=123 or /?ref=john). If a customer uses the affiliate’s referral URL, any outbound links to your e-commerce store will automatically include the affiliate’s ID or username. If the customer then makes a purchase on your e-commerce store, the proper affiliate will be awarded commission. The affiliate’s ID/username is stored in a cookie so even if the customer moves between pages on your site, the outbound links will still have the affiliate’s ID/username appended. More information What is AffiliateWP? AffiliateWP provides a complete affiliate management system for your WordPress website that seamlessly integrates with all major WordPress e-commerce and membership platforms. It aims to provide everything you need in a simple, clean, easy to use system that you will love to use.

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