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WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate, CVE-2024-8500

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-8500

Published on
Oct 23, 2024
Research Description
The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the several parameters in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2 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 7.3.0.
Status
vulnerable