CVE-2024-5342: Purvabathe Simple Image Popup Shortcode

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

The Simple Image Popup Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'sips_popup' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Purvabathe Simple Image Popup Shortcode: up to and including 1.0

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