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CVE-2025-14143: Ayo Shortcodes <= 0.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'color' Shortcode Attribute

• 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 Ayo Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'color' parameter of the ayo_action shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.2 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

• ayothemes Ayo Shortcodes: through 0.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/tags/0.2/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L55
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/tags/0.2/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L66
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/trunk/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L55
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ayo-shortcodes/trunk/includes/ayo-shortcodes-functions.php#L66
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1760fe6e-8153-4479-ae32-2e2f0fa54e12?source=cve

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