CVE-2025-0370
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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 36.8%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 36.75% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- vanokhin/shortcodes ultimate
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS moved from 36.8% on 25 October 2026 to 36.8% on 2 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/lightbox.php#L75Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3229060/Patch
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/#developersProduct, Release Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0869c35-9ea8-46a5-8bba-23d7ef47355a?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.