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CVE-2024-11012: Notibar – Notification Bar for WordPress <= 2.1.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via njt_nofi_text

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 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: none known
• Published: 2024-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The The Notibar – Notification Bar for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via njt_nofi_text AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.4. 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 authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Affected products

• ninjateam Notibar – Notification Bar for WordPress: through 2.1.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/notibar/trunk/includes/NotificationBar/WpCustomNotification.php#L90
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3205224/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/notibar/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1766727d-ba54-4b46-b362-415c14be027d?source=cve

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