CVE-2026-3885

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'su_box' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.4 Medium

Status

Deferred - security@wordfence.com

Published

2026-04-16

Last modified

2026-08-14

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Shortcodes Ultimate Content Elements (Gn Themes)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3489360/shortcodes-ultimate
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2026-3885
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f6929fdc-a5b1-4c71-9291-3fafa9381cf2?source=cve