Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-7369
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published July 20, 2025
Last Updated August 7, 2025
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the preview function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. In combination with CVE-2025-7354, it leads to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug shortcodes-ultimate (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 7.4.2
Patched Version
  • 7.4.3
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