CVE-2023-6488 — The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerabl

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'su_button', 'su_members', and 'su_tabs' shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.0 due to insufficient

01What is this vulnerability?

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'su_button', 'su_members', and 'su_tabs' shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
gn_themes	WP Shortcodes Plugin	Shortcodes Ultimate — *

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: 2023-12-19T01:58:59.593Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T08:28:21.818Z

09References

• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50a89ad1-a3d0-49e3-8d2…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/sh…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old…