What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-12018: Snippet Shortcodes <= 4.1.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Shortcode Deletion

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Snippet Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Shortcode Deletion due to missing authorization in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.6. Note that a nonce is used as authentication here, but the value is leaked. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete the plugin's Shortcodes.

Affected products

• aliakro Snippet Shortcodes: through 4.1.6

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3205481/shortcode-variables/trunk/includes/hooks.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-variables/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4e6e8f68-6977-478a-b62e-0ec9385eb2af?source=cve

Get alerted when CVE-2024-12018 or the next vulnerability affects your stack