Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 25, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2024-5220

Description

The ND Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's upload feature in all versions up to, and including, 7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

Nicdark/Nd Shortcodes
cpe:2.3:a:nicdark:nd_shortcodes:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <7.6

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3091778/nd-shortcodes/trunk/nd-shortcodes.phpnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5cbd6040-0446-41fe-8fef-c9065beeaa3anvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nd-shortcodes/tags/7.3/nd-shortcodes.phpnvdProduct

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