Security Advisory

CVE-2024-8481

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-09-25 02:05:00
Last updated 2026-04-08 16:37:01
Assigner Wordfence
CVSS score 7.3
State PUBLISHED

Description

The The Special Text Boxes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 6.2.4. This is due to the plugin adding the filter add_filter('comment_text', 'do_shortcode'); which will run all shortcodes in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.