CVE-2024-8500

Published: Oct 23, 2024Modified: Oct 25, 2024

5.4

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 2.3 / Impact: 2.7

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

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 (1)

Products: Getshortcodes: Shortcodes Ultimate

1 product

Shortcodes Ultimate

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Getshortcodes Shortcodes Ultimate	Before 7.3.0

Related CWEs

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/js/shortcodes/index.js

Source: security@wordfence.com

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3171844/

Source: security@wordfence.com

Patch

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/78af6e06-4b4c-4f56-a6f8-f98e8f681976?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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