Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 12, 2026· Updated May 12, 2026
CVE-2026-6913
CVE-2026-6913
Description
The Shortcodely plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'widget_area' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 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
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
7- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08ef43cc-42ea-43bd-a590-4f9b2c719491nvd
News mentions
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