vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: custom-content-shortcode: CVE-2021-24825: Improper Access Control
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Feb 2, 2022 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Feb 2, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026
Description
The Custom Content Shortcode WordPress plugin before 4.0.2 does not validate the data passed to its load shortcode, which could allow Contributor+ (v less than 4.0.1) or Admin+ (v less than 4.0.2) users to display arbitrary files from the filesystem (such as logs, .htaccess etc), as well as perform Local File Inclusion attacks as PHP files will be executed. Please note that such attack is still possible by admin+ in single site blogs by default (but won't be when either the unfiltered_html or file_edit is disallowed)
Solution
custom-content-shortcode-plugin-cve-2021-24825
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24825
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b2a825e4-3ffc-4412-81f4-6992dbbe756b?source=api-prod
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11737
- CVE-2021-24825
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24825
- CWE-345
- EUVD-EUVD-2021-11737
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