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

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-5567
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate
Application: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate
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