Slightly troublesome permalink

Slightly troublesome permalink has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it remains unpatched 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 Slightly troublesome permalink has no published fix yet, which makes virtual patching the only reliable mitigation. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.

All of these findings were reported by Nabil Irawan. Slightly troublesome permalink is installed on roughly 1,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 5.7.17.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
4.4/ 10
Patch Coverage0%
Open

1

Fixed

0

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Most severe open issueCVSS 4.4CVE-2025-57959

Slightly troublesome permalink <= 1.2.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

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Plugin Profile
Latestv1.2.0

Slightly troublesome permalink

tmatsuur

Author

tmatsuur

5.0(1)
100/100
Last Updated
2021-04-20 (6y ago)
Active Installs
1,000+
Downloads
9,990
Requires WP
4.5.0+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 5.7.17
Created
2012-02-09 (15y ago)

When you assign multiple categories to a post, only one can show up in the permalink. This will be the lowest numbered category. If this plug-in is used, arbitrary categories can be applied to a permalink. Some features: Arbitrary categories can be applied to a permalink. If a parent category is specified, the child category can be given priority to and applied(optional). Support Japanese – https://elearn.jp/wpman/column/slightly-troublesome-permalink.html Translators Japanese(ja) – Takenori Matsuura You can send your own language pack to me. Please contact to me. https://12net.jp/ (ja) @tmatsuur on twitter. Contributors Takenori Matsuura Credits This plug-in is not guaranteed though the user of WordPress can freely use this plug-in free of charge regardless of the purpose. The author must acknowledge the thing that the operation guarantee and the support in this plug-in use are not done at all beforehand. Contact email to takenori.matsuura[at]gmail.com twitter @tmatsuur

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