WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate CVE Vulnerabilities — WordPress Plugin Exploits

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via su_box Shortcode

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2026-3885 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Apr 15, 2026

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'su_box' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.8 - authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'su_carousel' Shortcode

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2026-0738 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Apr 3, 2026

The WP Shortcodes Plugin - Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the su_carousel shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.8. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'su_slide_link' attachment meta field. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'su_lightbox' Shortcode

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2026-0737 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Apr 3, 2026

The WP Shortcodes Plugin - Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.7. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'src' attribute of the su_lightbox shortcode. 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.

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'max_width' Shortcode Attribute

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2026-2480 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Mar 31, 2026

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'max_width' attribute of the `su_box` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.10 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.5 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2025-12800 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

published Nov 23, 2025

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.5 via the su_shortcode_csv_table function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. If the 'Unsafe features' option is explicitly enabled by an administrator, this issue becomes exploitable by Contributor+ attackers

Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Title and Slide Link

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2025-8015 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Jul 21, 2025

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via an uploaded image's 'Title' and 'Slide link' fields in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin Shortcodes

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2025-7354 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Jul 20, 2025

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2025-7369 ↗

cvss score 6.1

cwe CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

published Jul 20, 2025

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the preview function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. In combination with CVE-2025-7354, it leads to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.

Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.0 - Authenticted (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-url' Attribute

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2025-5567 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Jul 3, 2025

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.

Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2025-49244 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Jun 5, 2025

The Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 7.3.5 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.

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.3.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via src Parameter

medium ✓ patched

cve id CVE-2025-0370 ↗

cvss score 6.4

cwe CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published Mar 3, 2025

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘src’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.3.3 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.