Vulnerability database
Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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Jun 27, 2025Image Shadow: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')CVE-2025-24765 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by PatchstackHigh 7.7
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in RobMarsh Image Shadow image-shadow allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Image Shadow: from n/a through <= 1.1.0.
- Product
- Image Shadow
- Affected
- up to 1.1.0
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.1.0. Update Image Shadow to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Nov 15, 2024The Drop Shadow Boxes: Arbitrary shortcode executionCVE-2024-10262 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.3
The The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.14. 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 authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
- Product
- The Drop Shadow Boxes
- Affected
- up to 1.7.14
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.7.14. Update The Drop Shadow Boxes to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Nov 22, 2023Drop Shadow Boxes: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2023-5469 · WordPress plugins & themes · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dropshadowbox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.7.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- Product
- Drop Shadow Boxes
- Affected
- up to 1.7.13
- What to do
- Affects up to 1.7.13. Update Drop Shadow Boxes to the newest version and check its changelog mentions this fix; if there isn’t one yet, deactivate it until there is.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordplugins.trac.wordpress.orgplugins.trac.wordpress.org
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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