Known vulnerabilities in Tooltips for WordPress

Add custom tooltip automatically for post's content/title/tag/excerpt/gallery/menu, easily add image / video / audio / social/link tooltips

4Reported vulnerabilities

8.8Highest CVSS score

10.9.3Latest version

5,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Tooltips for WordPress to 9.5.9 or later. 3 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: January 9, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 6.9.7 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2023-25985	High 8.8	0.3%	8.2.5 and earlier	`8.2.7`	November 18, 2023
CVE-2024-30243	High 8.5	0.5%	Before 9.4.5	`9.4.5`	March 28, 2024
CVE-2024-31285	High 7.1	0.2%	9.5.3 and earlier	`9.5.9`	April 11, 2024
CVE-2025-63005	Medium 6.5	0.2%	0 to 10.9.3 (inclusive)	—	December 31, 2025

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.