CVE-2026-6913
Description
The Shortcodely plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'widget_area' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.php#L118
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/tags/1.0.1/shortcodely.php#L92
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L118
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L73
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shortcodely/trunk/shortcodely.php#L92
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/08ef43cc-42ea-43bd-a590-4f9b2c719491?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.