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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2023-0911 EUVD-2023-12899GHSA-8c5m-67fx-9q72

Shortcodes Ultimate < 5.12.8 - Subscriber+ User Meta Disclosure

Published Mar 20, 2023 · Updated Feb 25, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Description

The WordPress Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin before 5.12.8 does not validate the user meta to be retrieved via the user shortcode, allowing any authenticated users such as subscriber to retrieve arbitrary user meta (except the user_pass), such as the user email and activation key by default.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— WordPress Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate < 5.12.8 5.12.8

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