Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Dec 19, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-6488

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'su_button', 'su_members', and 'su_tabs' shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 7.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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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: <=7.0.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/button.phpnvdPatch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50a89ad1-a3d0-49e3-8d2e-4cb81ac115banvdThird Party Advisory

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