WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Shortcodes Ultimate < 5.12.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
shortcodes-ultimate
Fixed in 5.12.7

References

CVE
CVE-2023-25040

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.8 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
34ee492b-db51-4cda-be87-777383713a95

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-02-10 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2023-03-30 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-03-30 (about 3 years ago)

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