CVE-2024-2089: Doublesharp Remote Content Shortcode

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Remote Content Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'remote_content' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

• Doublesharp Remote Content Shortcode: up to and including 1.5

Published 2024-05-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.