WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate, CVE-2024-4553

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4553
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate
Application: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate
Published on: May 21, 2024
Research Description: The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'su_members' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied 'color' attribute. 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 7.1.6.
Status: vulnerable