CVE-2024-3188 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin before 7.1.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Getshortcodes	Shortcodes Ultimate

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bc273e75-7faf-4eaf-8ebd-efc5d6e9261f/

History

Wed, 14 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Getshortcodes Getshortcodes shortcodes Ultimate
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:::::-:wordpress::
Vendors & Products		Getshortcodes Getshortcodes shortcodes Ultimate

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-04-26T05:00:05.277Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:07.524Z

Reserved: 2024-04-02T13:12:14.874Z

Link: CVE-2024-3188

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:07.524Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-26T05:15:50.477

Modified: 2025-05-14T17:31:10.813

Link: CVE-2024-3188

Redhat

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