{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8500 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8500 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-8500 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate, published on 23 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8500 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-8500 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate, published on 23 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8500 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8500/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8500/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-8500","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8500/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-8500","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-36x9-qhr2-jphh"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via Shortcodes Ultimate plugin parameters, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"shortcodes_ultimate","vendor":"getshortcodes"}],"cvss":{"score":5.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the several parameters in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2 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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate","id":"CVE-2024-8500","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Arbitrary File Download in modelscope/agentscope","id":"CVE-2024-8501"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Checkout Field Editor (Checkout Manager) for WooCommerce","id":"CVE-2024-8499"},"products":["WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate"],"published":"2024-10-23","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-18580","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-08-22"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"WordPress Shortcodes Ultimate Plugin \u003c= 5.12.6 is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)","id":"CVE-2023-23800","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-11-13"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"WordPress Shortcodes Ultimate Plugin \u003c= 5.12.6 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-25040","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-03-30"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Shortcodes Ultimate \u003c 5.12.8 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Post Access","id":"CVE-2023-0890","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-03-20"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Shortcodes Ultimate \u003c 5.12.8 - Subscriber+ User Meta Disclosure","id":"CVE-2023-0911","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-03-20"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Shortcodes Ultimate \u003c= 7.4.0 - Authenticted (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-url' Attribute","id":"CVE-2025-5567","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-07-04"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate","id":"CVE-2024-4821","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-06-05"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["gn_themes"]},"summary":"Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via Shortcodes Ultimate plugin parameters, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8500/"}