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CVE-2024-5220

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-5220 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting all versions up to 7.5 of the ND Shortcodes plugin for WordPress. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts through the plugin's upload feature due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring user interaction, with potential for limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nicdark:nd_shortcodes:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
>= 0, <= 7.5CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:nicdark:nd_shortcodes:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 15,224 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/nd-shortcodes/tags/7.3/nd-shortcodes.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/3091778/nd-shortcodes/trunk/nd-shortcodes.php
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5cbd6040-0446-41fe-8fef-c9065beeaa3a
Third Party Advisory