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