Simple Spoiler, CVE-2024-8479

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-8479
Home page URL: Security reports for Simple Spoiler
Application: Simple Spoiler
Published on: Sep 14, 2024
Research Description: The The Simple Spoiler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in versions 1.2 to 1.3. This is due to the plugin adding the filter add_filter('comment_text', 'do_shortcode'); which will run all shortcodes in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Affected versions: Min 1.2, max 1.3.
Status: vulnerable