WordPress plugin · shortcodes-ultimate
Is Shortcodes Ultimate safe?
Safe on 7.9.2 or newer.
The current version, 7.9.2, is past every affected range on record (32 of 32 records list one). Keep it updated and you’re clear of them.
- Flaws on record
- 32
- High or critical
- 3
- Exploited
- none
- Current version
- 7.9.2
- Last updated
- Oct 17, 2026
- Active installs
- 400,000+
Every recorded flaw
- Apr 15, 2026WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-3885 · affects up to 7.4.9 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Apr 4, 2026WP Shortcodes Plugin - Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-0738 · affects up to 7.4.8 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Apr 4, 2026WP Shortcodes Plugin - Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-0737 · affects up to 7.4.7 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Mar 31, 2026WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2026-2480 · affects up to 7.4.10 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Nov 23, 2025WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Server-Side Request ForgeryCVE-2025-12800 · affects up to 7.4.5 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jul 22, 2025WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2025-8015 · affects up to 7.4.2 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jul 21, 2025WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Cross-Site Request ForgeryCVE-2025-7369 · affects up to 7.4.2 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.1
- Jul 21, 2025WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2025-7354 · affects up to 7.4.2 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jul 3, 2025WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2025-5567 · affects up to 7.4.0 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Jun 6, 2025Shortcodes Ultimate: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')CVE-2025-49244 · affects up to 7.3.5 · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.5
- Mar 4, 2025WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2025-0370 · affects up to 7.3.3 · reported by Wordfence37% oddsMedium 6.4
- Oct 23, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-8500 · affects up to 7.2.2 · reported by WordfenceMedium 5.4
- Jun 5, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-4821 · affects up to 7.1.6 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- May 21, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-4553 · affects up to 7.1.5 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- May 17, 2024Shortcodes Ultimate: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')CVE-2023-25050 · affects up to 5.12.6 · reported by PatchstackHigh 7.1
- May 15, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the pageCVE-2024-3548 · fixed in 7.1.2 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.1
- May 2, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-3550 · affects up to 7.1.2 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Apr 26, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedCVE-2024-3188 · fixed in 7.1.0 · reported by WPScanMedium 6.3
- Apr 13, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Does not properly escape some of its shortcodes attributes before they are echoed back to usersCVE-2024-2583 · fixed in 7.0.5 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
- Feb 28, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-0792 · affects up to 7.0.1 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Feb 28, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-1808 · affects up to 7.0.3 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Feb 19, 2024WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2024-1510 · affects up to 7.0.2 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Dec 18, 2023WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2023-6488 · affects up to 7.0.0 · reported by WordfenceMedium 5.4
- Nov 28, 2023WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Insecure Direct Object ReferenceCVE-2023-6226 · affects up to 5.13.3 · reported by WordfenceMedium 4.3
- Nov 28, 2023WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Stored Cross-Site ScriptingCVE-2023-6225 · affects up to 5.13.3 · reported by WordfenceMedium 6.4
- Nov 12, 2023WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)CVE-2023-23800 · affects up to 5.12.6 · reported by PatchstackHigh 7.1
- Mar 30, 2023Auth.CVE-2023-25040 · fixed in 5.12.7 · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.5
- Nov 8, 2022Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Vladimir Anokhin's Shortcodes Ultimate plugin <= 5.12.0 on WordPCVE-2022-41136 · affects up to 5.12.0 · reported by PatchstackMedium 6.1
- Oct 11, 2022Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Shortcodes Ultimate plugin <= 5.12.0 at WordPress leading to plugin preset settings change.CVE-2022-38086 · affects up to 5.12.0 · reported by PatchstackMedium 5.4
- Sep 20, 2021Shortcodes Ultimate: Allows users with Contributor roles to perform stored XSS via shortcode attributesCVE-2021-24525 · fixed in 5.10.2 · reported by WPScanMedium 5.4
- Aug 22, 2019The shortcodes-ultimate plugin before 5.0.1 for WordPress has remote code execution via a filter in a meta, post, or user shortcode.CVE-2017-18580 · fixed in 5.0.1 · reported by MITRE12% oddsCritical 9.8
- Jul 7, 2017Shortcodes Ultimate prior to version 4.10.0: Directory traversalCVE-2017-2245 · affects up to 4.9.9 · reported by vultures@jpcert.or.jp2.6% oddsMedium 5
Records come from the National Vulnerability Database, published by the researchers who found each flaw (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan and others); exploited status from CISA; exploit odds from FIRST’s EPSS; current version, installs and closures from wordpress.org, checked daily. Want every plugin on your site checked at once? Run the free website check.
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