CVE-2024-9578: Avovkdesign Hide Links

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Hide Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized shortcode execution due to do_shortcode being hooked through the comment_text filter in all versions up to and including 1.4.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes available on the target site.

Affected products

• Avovkdesign Hide Links: up to and including 1.4.2

Published 2024-11-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.