CVE-2022-41136 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability leading to Stored Cross-Site Scr

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Vladimir Anokhin's Shortcodes Ultimate plugin <= 5.12.0 on WordPress.

01What is this vulnerability?

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Vladimir Anokhin's Shortcodes Ultimate plugin <= 5.12.0 on WordPress.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Vladimir Anokhin	Shortcodes Ultimate (WordPress plugin)	<= 5.12.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-11-08T18:28:05.177Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T00:46:56.074Z

09References

• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/#developers
• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/shortcodes-ultimate/wordpress-shor…