CVE-2023-6226

MEDIUM

WP Shortcodes Plugin - Insecure Direct Object Reference

Title source: llm

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.13.3 via the su_meta shortcode due to missing validation on the user controlled keys 'key' and 'post_id'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve arbitrary post meta values which may contain sensitive information when combined with another plugin.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Exploit

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/meta.php

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&new=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d936a48-b300-4a41-8d28-ba34cb3c5cb7?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3

EPSS 0.0013

EPSS Percentile 31.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-639

Status published

Products (2)

getshortcodes/shortcodes_ultimate < 7.0.0

gn_themes/WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate < 5.13.3

Published Nov 28, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026