The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00033.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-22051 The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/includes/shortcodes/button.php#L408 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/includes/shortcodes/expand.php#L130 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/includes/shortcodes/members.php#L79 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/includes/shortcodes/post.php#L116 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/includes/shortcodes/user.php#L95 cve-icon cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3328729/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/62d32cda-bb6d-4ffa-82b9-f2f6e8d4346f?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:45:00 +0000

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Description The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Title WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Plugin Shortcodes
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-07-21T11:07:53.742Z

Reserved: 2025-07-08T12:28:22.432Z

Link: CVE-2025-7354

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-21T11:07:50.000Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-21T08:15:24.733

Modified: 2025-07-22T13:06:07.260

Link: CVE-2025-7354

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Weaknesses