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CVE-2024-8479

HIGH CVSS: 7.3 Published: 2024-09-14 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The The Simple Spoiler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in versions 1.2 to 1.3. 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.

Affected Platforms

Webliberty Simple Spoiler

Weakness Type

CWE-94

References