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CVE-2026-3885: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via su_box Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2026-04-16 · updated 2026-08-14
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'su_box' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.9 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

• gn_themes Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements: through 7.4.9

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3489360/shortcodes-ultimate
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2026-3885
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f6929fdc-a5b1-4c71-9291-3fafa9381cf2?source=cve

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