CVE-2025-5567 (GCVE-0-2025-5567)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 02:22 – Updated: 2025-07-07 15:01
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Summary
The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-url' DOM element attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.0 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.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate Affected: * , ≤ 7.4.0 (semver)
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Credits
Asaf Mozes
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