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WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate, CVE-2025-5567

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-5567

Published on
Jul 04, 2025
Research Description
The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-url' DOM element attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.0 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
Min -, max 7.4.1.
Status
vulnerable