WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Hustle < 7.8.14.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Success Message Placeholders

Description

The plugin does not prevent shortcodes in submitted form values from being executed when it substitutes those values into the message it returns after submission, because the guard it applies can be defeated by nesting, allowing unauthenticated users to run any shortcode registered on the site.
Exploitation requires the site to have configured that message to include one of the submitted values.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 7.8.14.2

References

Classification

Type
INJECTION
OWASP top 10

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jakub Herman
Submitter
Jakub Herman
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-07 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-09-07 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-09-07 (about 1 day ago)

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