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CVE-2025-13885: Zenost Shortcodes <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-12 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Zenost Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'link' and 'target' parameters in the `button` shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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

• imran3229 Zenost Shortcodes: through 1.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zenost-shortcodes/tags/1.0/inc/shortcodes.php#L25
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zenost-shortcodes/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L25
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c88d378a-6c58-4670-b0b6-0e0d51c39bd1?source=cve

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