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CVE-2023-6225: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 5.13.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-11-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's su_meta shortcode combined with post meta data in all versions up to, and including, 5.13.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied meta values. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: before 7.0.0 — fixed in 7.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate 7.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/meta.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&new=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/558e36f6-4678-46a2-8154-42770fbb5574?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/meta.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&new=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/558e36f6-4678-46a2-8154-42770fbb5574?source=cve

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