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CVE-2024-2089: Remote Content Shortcode <= 1.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Remote Content Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'remote_content' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

• doublesharp Remote Content Shortcode: through 1.5

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/remote-content-shortcode/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/66abfe6b-c706-4e70-b35b-ee04da613933?source=cve
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/remote-content-shortcode/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/66abfe6b-c706-4e70-b35b-ee04da613933?source=cve

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