CVE-2025-8015

MEDIUM 6.4 CVSS 3.1

Published: July 22, 2025
Last modified: June 17, 2026
NVD status: Deferred
Reported by: security@wordfence.com
Weakness: CWE-79
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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.

Affected WordPress components

Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements Plugin · shortcodes-ultimate

Confirmed match Active

Up to and including 7.4.2
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A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate — Up to and including 7.4.2

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3328729/shortcodes-ultimate
research.cleantalk.org https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-8015/
www.wordfence.com https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/deba0a29-7fe5-4f94-bee6-9d01e023215e?source=cve
nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record

WordPress CVEs

Description

Affected WordPress components

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References