Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jul 22, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8015

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via an uploaded image's 'Title' and 'Slide link' fields in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 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.

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Affected products

WordPress/Shortcodes Ultimateinferred
Range: <=7.4.2
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate
Getshortcodes/Shortcodes Ultimatellm-fuzzy
Range: <=7.4.2

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3328729/shortcodes-ultimatenvd
research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-8015/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/deba0a29-7fe5-4f94-bee6-9d01e023215envd

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