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CVE-2024-9696: Rescue Shortcodes <= 2.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• 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: 2024-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Rescue Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'rescue_tab' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Rescue Themes Rescue Shortcodes: before 2.9 — fixed in 2.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rescue Themes Rescue Shortcodes 2.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3167329%40rescue-shortcodes&new=3167329%40rescue-shortcodes&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9517db1f-1704-4f25-9b02-795da3c4c067?source=cve

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