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Shortcode Cleaner Lite, CVE-2025-1481

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-1481

Published on
Mar 08, 2025
Research Description
The Shortcode Cleaner Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the download_backup() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to export arbitrary options.
Affected versions
Min -, max 1.0.9.
Status
vulnerable