Vulnerabilities and security researches foreasy-github-gist-shortcodes easy-github-gist-shortcodes

Jan 11, 2026

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-14147
Home page URL: Security reports for Easy GitHub Gist Shortcodes
Application: Easy GitHub Gist Shortcodes
Date: Jan 07, 2026
Research Description: The Easy GitHub Gist Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'id' parameter of the gist shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 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.
Affected versions: max 1.0.
Status: vulnerable