CVE-2024-1357: Averta Shortcodes And Extra Features For Phlox Theme

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's aux_timeline shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as thumb_mode and date_type. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Averta Shortcodes And Extra Features For Phlox Theme: before 2.15.8 (fixed in 2.15.8)

Published 2024-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.