Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in WP Shortcodes Plugin by WordPress
CVE-2023-6488

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 December 2023

Summary

The Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-generated attributes within the 'su_button', 'su_members', and 'su_tabs' shortcodes. This vulnerability allows authenticated users with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary scripts into pages. These scripts will execute in the browsers of users visiting those pages, potentially compromising sensitive information or leading to further exploitation.

Affected Version(s)

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate * <= 7.0.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ult...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Craig Smith
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