Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jul 4, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-5567

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'data-url' DOM element attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.0 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.

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Affected products

Getshortcodes/Shortcodes Ultimate
cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*
Range: <7.4.1
WordPress/Shortcodes Ultimatellm-fuzzy
Range: <=7.4.0
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate
gn_themes/WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimatev5
Range: 0

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fbd67145-5b95-4890-a265-1dd7a029aec6nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.0/includes/js/shortcodes/index.jsnvdProduct

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