CVE-2026-6913

medium

Description

The Shortcodely plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'widget_area' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08ef43cc-42ea-43bd-a590-4f9b2c719491?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L92

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L73

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L118

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.php#L92

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.php#L73

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.php#L118

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-12

Updated: 2026-05-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00036