CVE-2023-6969: Kylebjohnson User Shortcodes Plus

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

The User Shortcodes Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 via the user_meta shortcode due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to retrieve potentially sensitive user meta.

Affected products

• Kylebjohnson User Shortcodes Plus: up to and including 2.0.2

Published 2024-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.