CVE-2025-12800 WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate <= 7.4.5 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Server-Side Request Forgery
Administrators can exploit SSRF in Shortcodes Ultimate to access internal services; enabling unsafe features allows contributors to exploit it.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-12800?
CVE-2025-12800 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate, published on 23 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 7.4.5 via the su_shortcode_csv_table function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. If the 'Unsafe features' option is explicitly enabled by an administrator, this issue becomes exploitable by Contributor+ attackers
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12800?
How do I fix CVE-2025-12800?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12800 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2025-12800 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12800 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7vx4-j234-7f53.