GS Testimonial Slider <= 3.2.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

6.5
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2025-47481
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published May 7, 2025
Last Updated May 12, 2025
Researcher theviper17y

Description

The The A WordPress Testimonial Plugin to Showcase Testimonial Slider, Testimonial Grid and More: Solid Testimonials plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.9. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

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Vulnerability Details for Solid Testimonials – Testimonial Slider, Video Testimonials & Customer Reviews

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gs-testimonial (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.3.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.2.9
Patched Version
  • 3.3.0

Recent vulnerabilities in Solid Testimonials – Testimonial Slider, Video Testimonials & Customer Reviews

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Freemius <= 2.10.1 - Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter CVE-2024-13362 6.1 Asaf Mozes April 30, 2026
2 GS Testimonial Slider <= 3.3.0 - Missing Authorization CVE-2025-47467 4.3 domiee13 May 7, 2025
3 GS Testimonial Slider <= 3.1.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-30443 6.4 LVT-tholv2k March 28, 2024
4 Appsero <= 1.2.1 - Missing Authorization 4.3 December 16, 2022
5 Appsero <= 1.2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2022-47150 4.3 István Márton December 14, 2022
6 GS Testimonial Slider <= 1.9.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-40213 6.4 Ngo Van Thien September 15, 2022
7 GS Testimonial Slider <= 1.9.6 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-35882 6.4 Tien Nguyen Ahn July 27, 2022

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