CVE-2025-7369

MEDIUM 6.1

Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

CVSS Score

6.1

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-352
Vendor	gn_themes
Product	wp shortcodes plugin — shortcodes ultimate
Published	Jul 21, 2025
Last Updated	Apr 8, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

gn_themes / WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate

0 ≤ 7.4.2

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5934d1c8-1553-4908-aaab-89d2189eb4cd?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.2/inc/core/generator.php#L339 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3328729/ research.cleantalk.org: https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-7369/

Credits

Dmitrii Ignatyev