CVE-2025-5567

MEDIUM EPSS 7.2%

Published Jul 4, 202512mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago

5.4 CVSS 3.1

Medium

Published Jul 4, 2025 12mo ago

Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-url' DOM element attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.0 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.

CVSS Details

Base Score

5.4

Exploitability

2.3

Impact

2.7

Vector string

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

User Interaction Required

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

Availability None

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability

7.2% percentile

Exploit & Patch Status

No Known Exploit

No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting Injection

Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Version	Range
getshortcodes	shortcodes_ultimate	*	<7.4.1

References 2

plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.0/includes/js/shortcodes/index.js

Product
wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fbd67145-5b95-4890-a265-1dd7a029aec6?source=cve

Third Party Advisory

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.