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CVE-2024-8479: CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') in webliberty Simple Spoiler

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VulnerabilityCVE-2024-8479cvecve-2024-8479cwe-94
Published: Sat Sep 14 2024 (09/14/2024, 03:19:28 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: webliberty
Product: Simple Spoiler

Description

The The Simple Spoiler plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in versions 1.2 to 1.3. This is due to the plugin adding the filter add_filter('comment_text', 'do_shortcode'); which will run all shortcodes in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Technical Details

Data Version
5.1
Assigner Short Name
Wordfence
Date Reserved
2024-09-05T15:17:31.811Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED

Threat ID: 699f6c2ab7ef31ef0b560a7c

Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:39:54 PM

Last updated: 2/25/2026, 9:51:29 PM

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