PT-2025-38098 · WordPress · Social Media Shortcodes

Djaidja Moundjid + 1 · Published 2025-09-17 · Updated 2025-09-17 · CVE-2025-10166

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Social Media Shortcodes plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 1.3.1

Description The Social Media Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the plugin’s twitter shortcode. Insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations Update the Social Media Shortcodes plugin to a version later than 1.3.1.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-10166

Affected Products

Social Media Shortcodes

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10166 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1968178192549646782 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-media-shortcodes/trunk/social_media_shortcode_plugin.php#L187 · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/135612 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d96465a-d1b6-4991-8e81-e80a0d15a902?source=cve · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-shortcodes · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/32705 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1968190754825576684 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3359485 · Note