CVE-2023-6226: Getshortcodes Shortcodes Ultimate

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.13.3 via the su_meta shortcode due to missing validation on the user controlled keys 'key' and 'post_id'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve arbitrary post meta values which may contain sensitive information when combined with another plugin.

Affected products

• Getshortcodes Shortcodes Ultimate: before 7.0.0 (fixed in 7.0.0)

Published 2023-11-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.