Embed RSS <= 3.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-25081
CVSS Medium (6.3)
Publicly Published February 3, 2025
Last Updated February 12, 2025
Researcher Muhammad Yudha - DJ
Description

The The Embed RSS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.1. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug embed-rss (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1
Patched Version
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