CVE-2023-0063: Synved WordPress Shortcodes

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WordPress Shortcodes WordPress plugin through 1.6.36 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Synved WordPress Shortcodes: up to and including 1.6.36

Published 2023-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.