CVE-2024-8500

MEDIUM

WP Shortcodes Plugin - Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.2.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: llm

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the several parameters in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/js/shortcodes/index.js

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3171844/

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/78af6e06-4b4c-4f56-a6f8-f98e8f681976?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 28.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (2)

getshortcodes/shortcodes_ultimate < 7.3.0

gn_themes/WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate < 7.2.2

Published Oct 23, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026