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1 vulnerability by davemacd

CVE-2025-2803 (GCVE-0-2025-2803)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-29 07:03 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:04
VLAI
Title
So-Called Air Quotes <= 0.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Summary
The So-Called Air Quotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 0.1. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
davemacd So-Called Air Quotes Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.1 (semver)
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Credits
Avraham Shemesh
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