CVE-2025-2169 (GCVE-0-2025-2169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-11 03:22 – Updated: 2025-03-11 13:50
VLAI?
Title
WPCS – WordPress Currency Switcher Professional <= 1.2.0.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Summary
The The WPCS – WordPress Currency Switcher Professional plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.0.4. 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
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
realmag777 WPCS – WordPress Currency Switcher Professional Affected: * , ≤ 1.2.0.4 (semver)
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Credits
Arkadiusz Hydzik
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