WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 5.13.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Information Disclosure

4.3
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2023-6226
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 27, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci

Description

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.13.3 via the su_meta shortcode due to missing validation on the user controlled keys 'key' and 'post_id'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve arbitrary post meta values which may contain sensitive information when combined with another plugin.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug shortcodes-ultimate (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.0.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.13.3
Patched Version
  • 7.0.0

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