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.
Published: 2025-07-21
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Remote Code Execution via CSRF
Action: Immediate Patch
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-22052 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.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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References

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
Weaknesses CWE-352
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:54:43.933Z

Reserved: 2025-07-08T19:18:27.435Z

Link: CVE-2025-7369

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-21T17:41:59.932Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-07-21T08:15:24.900

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-7369

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-21T04:00:10Z

Weaknesses