Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Dec 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-13885

Description

The Zenost Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'link' and 'target' parameters in the button shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

WordPress/Zenost Shortcodesinferred
Range: <=1.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/zenost-shortcodes

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zenost-shortcodes/tags/1.0/inc/shortcodes.phpnvd
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zenost-shortcodes/trunk/inc/shortcodes.phpnvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c88d378a-6c58-4670-b0b6-0e0d51c39bd1nvd

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