Shortcodes Ultimate <= 5.12.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read via Shortcode

6.5
External Control of File Name or Path
CVE CVE-2023-25050
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published February 10, 2023
Last Updated February 14, 2023
Researcher Rafie Muhammad - Patchstack

Description

The Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in versions up to, and including, 5.12.6. This is due to insufficient validation on the url being supplied via the "url" attribute of the su_table shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level privileges and above, to supply paths to arbitrary files that will be returned when rendering the shortcode. This can be leveraged to read sensitive configuration files like wp-config.php. This is only exploitable when the Unsafe features option is enabled.

Wordfence blocked 11 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug shortcodes-ultimate (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.12.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.12.6
Patched Version
  • 5.12.7

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