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 35.6%, higher than 98% 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
- 35.63% probability · 98th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- vanokhin/shortcodes ultimate
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
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. Refreshed daily.