CVE-2025-7369

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.2. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the preview function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. In combination with CVE-2025-7354, it leads to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting.

CVSS breakdown

CVSS 3.1

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Affected products

gn_themes / WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate0 – 7.4.2

References

MISChttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5934d1c8-1553-4908-aaab-89d2189eb4cd?source=cve
MISChttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/inc/core/generator.php#L339
MISChttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3328729/
MISChttps://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-7369/