CVE-2024-5220: Nicdark Nd Shortcodes

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

The ND Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's upload feature in all versions up to, and including, 7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Nicdark Nd Shortcodes: before 7.6 (fixed in 7.6)

Published 2024-05-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.