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CVE-2025-7649: Surbma | Recent Comments Shortcode <= 2.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: 2025-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Surbma | Recent Comments Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'recent-comments' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0 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

• Surbma | Recent Comments Shortcode: through 2.0

References

• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surbma-recent-comments-shortcode/tags/2.0/surbma-recent-comments-shortcode.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/58e9c535-1b36-4795-b8f6-b38f3fc3d164?source=cve

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