🛡️ CVE-2024-4217 — shortcodes-ultimate

🟡 CVSS 4.7 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
4.7
CVSS Score
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Description

The shortcodes-ultimate-pro WordPress plugin before 7.1.5 does not properly escape some of its shortcodes' settings, making it possible for attackers with a Contributor account to conduct Stored XSS attacks.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-4217 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2024-4217 is recorded against 1 package.

  • shortcodes-ultimate (fixed in 7.1.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 July 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com
wpscan.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-13
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
shortcodes-ultimate — 7.1.5

Similar Threats

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