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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2024-8500 EUVD-2024-49223GHSA-36x9-qhr2-jphh

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.2.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Published Oct 23, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the several parameters in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2 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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate ≤ 7.2.2 —

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