CVE-2024-9578

Hide Links <= 1.4.2 - Unauthenticated Shortcode Execution

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Nov 13, 2024
Updated: Apr 8, 2026
Reserved: Oct 7, 2024

Description

The Hide Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized shortcode execution due to do_shortcode being hooked through the comment_text filter in all versions up to and including 1.4.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes available on the target site.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N	Wordfence

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Hide Linksegolacrima	1.4.2 and earlierAffected

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4198bbb2-3aff-492e-a781-b0c9477baf6c?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-links/trunk/class.hidelinks.php#L21

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