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Surbma | Recent Comments Shortcode, CVE-2025-7649

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-7649

Published on
Aug 16, 2025
Research Description
The Surbma | Recent Comments Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'recent-comments' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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
Min -, max 2.0.
Status
vulnerable