Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 16, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-10262

Description

The The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.14. 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.

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Affected products

WordPress/Drop Shadow Boxesreferences2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <=1.7.14
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/drop-shadow-boxes

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/drop-shadow-boxes/trunk/dropshadowboxes.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3199280/nvd
wordpress.org/plugins/drop-shadow-boxes/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa0a296a-a93f-4c0e-9911-b4f9bdd53fadnvd

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