Known vulnerabilities in Bitly's WordPress Plugin

Create short links to your content with Bitly’s WordPress Plugin.

4Reported vulnerabilities

6.4Highest CVSS score

2.8.1Latest version

2,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Bitly's WordPress Plugin to 2.7.4 or later. 3 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: March 10, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 6.7.7 / 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-2025-58231	Medium 6.4	0.2%	2.7.4 and earlier	—	September 22, 2025
CVE-2023-5577	Medium 5.4	0.5%	2.7.1 and earlier	`2.7.2`	November 7, 2023
CVE-2024-43209	Medium 5.3	0.4%	2.7.2 and earlier	`2.7.3`	August 9, 2024
CVE-2024-12616	Medium 4.3	0.3%	0 to 2.7.3 (inclusive)	`2.7.4`	January 9, 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.