Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Affects Shortcodes Ultimate Plug-in
CVE-2024-8500
5.4MEDIUM
Key Information:
- Vendor
Wordpress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 23 October 2024
What is CVE-2024-8500?
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 Version(s)
WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate * <= 7.2.2