CVE-2024-3188 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin before 7.1.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00193.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 7.1.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:*:*:*:*:-:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Getshortcodes Subscribe	Shortcodes Ultimate Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bc273e75-7faf-4eaf-8ebd-efc5d6e9261f/

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00077}`	epss `{'score': 0.00078}`

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00075}`	epss `{'score': 0.00077}`

Wed, 14 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Getshortcodes Getshortcodes shortcodes Ultimate
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:::::-:wordpress::
Vendors & Products		Getshortcodes Getshortcodes shortcodes Ultimate

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-04-26T05:00:05.277Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:07.524Z

Reserved: 2024-04-02T13:12:14.874Z

Link: CVE-2024-3188

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:05:07.524Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-26T05:15:50.477

Modified: 2025-05-14T17:31:10.813

Link: CVE-2024-3188

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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