CVE-2026-6913
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
12/05/2026
Last modified:
12/05/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.php#L118
- 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#L92
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L118
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L92
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08ef43cc-42ea-43bd-a590-4f9b2c719491?source=cve



