CVE-2023-6226

Impact

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.13.3 via the su_meta shortcode due to missing validation on the user controlled keys 'key' and 'post_id'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve arbitrary post meta values which may contain sensitive information when combined with another plugin.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/meta.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&new=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d936a48-b300-4a41-8d28-ba34cb3c5cb7?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodes-ultimate/trunk/includes/shortcodes/meta.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&new=3000576%40shortcodes-ultimate&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d936a48-b300-4a41-8d28-ba34cb3c5cb7?source=cve