Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 29, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-13557

Description

The Shortcodes by United Themes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.6. 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 unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Affected products

WordPress/Shortcodes By United Themesinferred
Range: <=5.1.6
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-by-united-themes

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

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References

unitedthemes.comnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e4ca7dad-bfe2-443e-b575-362d8ff93242nvd

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