CVE-2026-8897: Vincentastolfi Shortcode Buddy

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Shortcode Buddy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.9.5 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.

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Published 2026-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.