Vulnerabilites related to hcabrera - WordPress Popular Posts
CVE-2024-11733 (GCVE-0-2024-11733)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-03 22:22
Modified
2025-01-06 15:07
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Summary
The The WordPress Popular Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.0. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
hcabrera WordPress Popular Posts Version: *    7.1.0
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