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CVE-2025-5567

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-5567 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate for WordPress, versions up to and including 7.4.0. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages via the 'data-url' DOM element attribute. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 5.4), successful exploitation could lead to client-side script execution, potentially impacting user sessions or data. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 7.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:getshortcodes:shortcodes_ultimate:*:*:*:*:-: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
0.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
7.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0018 is in the 7th 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/shortcodes-ultimate/tags/7.4.0/includes/js/shortcodes/index.js
Product
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fbd67145-5b95-4890-a265-1dd7a029aec6
Third Party Advisory