CVE-2025-12800
MediumCVSS 6.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs
Summary
The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate for WordPress in versions up to and including 7.4.5 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery via the su_shortcode_csv_table function. An authenticated attacker with Administrator-level access or higher can make web requests to arbitrary locations from the web application, which can be used to query and modify information from internal services. If the 'Unsafe features' option is enabled, this issue becomes exploitable by Contributor+ attackers.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can access and modify internal services and data, potentially leading to infrastructure security breaches.
Recommendation
Update the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin to a version later than 7.4.5 and disable the 'Unsafe features' option if not required.
Other vulnerabilities in Shortcodes Ultimate
See all- CVE-2026-3885Medium
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.
- CVE-2026-0738Medium
The Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress up to version 7.4.8 contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability via the su_carousel shortcode, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'su_slide_link' attachment meta field.
- CVE-2026-0737Medium
The Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress up to version 7.4.7 has a Stored XSS vulnerability in the 'src' attribute of the su_lightbox shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping allow authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject scripts.
Original NVD description (English source)
The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.5 via the su_shortcode_csv_table function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. If the 'Unsafe features' option is explicitly enabled by an administrator, this issue becomes exploitable by Contributor+ attackers
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS