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MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter, CVE-2024-8623

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-8623

Published on
Sep 24, 2024
Research Description
The The MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.3.3. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Affected versions
Min -, max 1.3.3.4.
Status
vulnerable