Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAccess unauthenticated public review form
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ExploitInject shortcode into vulnerable review field
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ExecutionStored without neutralisation
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ImpactShortcode executes when field is rendered
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V1 - Encoding and Sanitization Code injection prevention, sandbox exec
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that the plugin's user-review feature is enabled AND that the specific vulnerable review field is configured to be displayed; the review form itself is public and reachable by unauthenticated visitors on sites running WP Ultimate Review before 2.4.5. The practical impact is limited by which shortcodes are registered on the target WordPress site, and by the requirement that the affected field actually be rendered to a viewer; the CVSS AC:H reflects these configuration-dependent preconditions. These are the limiting factors defenders should weigh: it only bites where reviews and that field's display are turned on. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity stored shortcode injection (CWE-94) in the WP Ultimate Review WordPress plugin, carrying a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.8 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N). The signals point to a real but bounded issue rather than an emergency. In its favour for attackers: the attack vector is network-based and the vulnerable review form is unauthenticated (PR:N/UI:N), so no credentials or victim interaction are needed to plant the payload. Tempering the risk: AC:H reflects that exploitation depends on non-default conditions (user reviews must be enabled and the affected field's display must be enabled), and the impact is only Low/Low confidentiality and integrity with no availability impact - this is not full remote code execution despite the 'RCE' tag. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month' (not act_now/emergency), consistent with a patch-this-cycle posture. On exploitation signals there is conflict/absence to note explicitly: the PoC is a WPScan reference only and is NOT verified as working exploit code, the CVE is NOT listed in CISA KEV, and no EPSS probability was provided in the input - so there is no evidence of active or widespread exploitation. The 'RCE' tag overstates impact relative to the CVSS C:L/I:L vector; treat this as a shortcode-abuse/injection flaw whose severity depends on which shortcodes are available on the target site. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated visitor submits a product/service review through the plugin's public review form, embedding a WordPress shortcode in a review field that the plugin fails to neutralise. When that review and field are displayed to other visitors or administrators, the injected shortcode is executed in the site context, abusing whatever shortcodes are registered on the site. A public PoC reference exists (WPScan) but it is not verified as working exploit code. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 22, 2026
Stored shortcode injection in the WP Ultimate Review WordPress plugin affects every version before 2.4.5: the public review form does not neutralise shortcode syntax in all review fields, so an unauthenticated visitor can submit a review containing arbitrary shortcodes that are then executed when that field is rendered on the site, provided user reviews and that field's display are enabled. The vendor has released 2.4.5 as the fix, and a public PoC reference exists; it is not verified as working exploit code, and there is no confirmed active exploitation (not in CISA KEV). Tracked as CVE-2026-103234 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.8 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N) and an EUVD record (EUVD-2026-108009), the realistic impact is bounded by which shortcodes are registered on the target site and by whether the affected field is actually displayed to a viewer.
RemediationAI
Upgrade WP Ultimate Review to version 2.4.5 or later; that is the fixed release identified in the EUVD affected-version range (0 <2.4.5) and described by the vendor as available, with details in the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e7bd1750-babb-4a72-bb00-ca3d1ee228ce/ and the NVD record at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103234. Because the exploit path depends on the public review form and on rendering of the affected field, sites that cannot update immediately can reduce exposure by disabling the plugin's user-review feature or by turning off display of the affected review field; the trade-off is loss of visitor review collection and any review content that field carries, but it removes the delivery path this CVE relies on for the stored payload. As a secondary consideration after patching, review which shortcodes are registered on the site, since the delivered payload can only exercise handlers that exist there, and audit stored review content for shortcode syntax submitted before the update was applied.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
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Technical ContextAI · show details
WordPress shortcodes are bracketed macros (the familiar [shortcode] form) that WordPress expands through its shortcode API when post, page or custom-field content is rendered. The plugin stores review submissions from a front-end form open to unauthenticated visitors and later renders those values; it does not consistently strip or escape shortcode syntax across all review fields, so attacker-supplied shortcodes survive storage and are processed at render time. That places the flaw in CWE-94 (improper control of generation of code), the same class as stored cross-site scripting style injection, except the payload is interpreted by the shortcode engine rather than the browser. What the injected shortcode can actually achieve is not fixed by the plugin: it depends on which shortcode handlers are registered on the host site, and shortcodes that perform privileged actions, disclose data, or embed further content raise the impact above the modest baseline the vector describes. The CVSS vector encodes those limits directly - AV:N/PR:N/UI:N describe the open, unauthenticated public review form, while AC:H captures the configuration-dependent preconditions (user reviews enabled and the vulnerable field configured for display) and the C: L/I: L/A:N profile reflects partial, site-dependent confidentiality and integrity effects rather than assured remote code execution. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:unknown:wp_ultimate_review:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* carries an unresolved vendor token, so version-range confirmation must come from the EUVD data (0 through versions below 2.4.5) and the WPScan advisory rather than from CPE matching. The trigger is not described in more detail in the available sources beyond the plugin's failure to neutralise shortcodes in submitted review fields.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Public unauthenticated form gives PR:N/UI:N and AV:N; AC:H because it depends on reviews and that field's display being enabled; impact limited to C:L/I:L as it is shortcode abuse, not RCE.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The WP Ultimate Review WordPress plugin before 2.4.5 does not neutralise shortcodes in all of the review fields submitted through its public review form, which is available to unauthenticated visitors, allowing them to execute arbitrary shortcodes when the affected field is displayed, provided user reviews and that field's display are enabled.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Code injection occurs when an application accepts user input and passes it directly into a language interpreter or evaluator without proper sanitization.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
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EUVD-2026-108009
GHSA-mq79-9v7w-xc5w
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
VulDB
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