CVE-2024-9696: Rescuethemes Rescue Shortcodes

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

The Rescue Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'rescue_tab' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8 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

• Rescuethemes Rescue Shortcodes: before 2.9 (fixed in 2.9)

Published 2024-10-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.