CVE-2025-7957: Surror Shortcodehub – Multipurpose Shortcode Builder

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ShortcodeHub plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘author_link_target’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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

• Surror Shortcodehub – Multipurpose Shortcode Builder: up to and including 1.7.1

Published 2025-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.