CVE-2025-7369
Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
gn_themes · WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate
- affected ≤ 7.4.2
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5934d1c8-1553-4908-aaab-89d2189eb4cd?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/inc/core/generator.php#L339 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3328729/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-7369/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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