Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 28, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-6226

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.13.3 via the su_meta shortcode due to missing validation on the user controlled keys 'key' and 'post_id'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve arbitrary post meta values which may contain sensitive information when combined with another plugin.

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Affected products

Getshortcodes/Shortcodes Ultimate
cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <7.0.0
WordPress/Shortcodes Ultimatellm-fuzzy
Range: <=5.13.3
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d936a48-b300-4a41-8d28-ba34cb3c5cb7nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/meta.phpnvdExploit

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