CVE-2024-0711: Otwthemes Buttons Shortcode And Widget

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Buttons Shortcode and Widget WordPress plugin through 1.16 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

• Otwthemes Buttons Shortcode And Widget: up to and including 1.16

Published 2024-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.