The The Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.19 This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes. Exploitation requires an administrator to have configured an ad block containing a dynamic tag such as {title}, {tag}, {category}, or {smart-tag} with display enabled on search pages, which is a normal and documented plugin configuration.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.5 · spacetimeNVD modified 2026-10-30 17:24
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a36f813c-97c5-466d-92e0-7341c12b5a46?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ad-inserter/tags/2.8.19/class.php#L3297
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ad-inserter/tags/2.8.19/ad-inserter.php#L12974
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ad-inserter/tags/2.8.19/ad-inserter.php#L13142
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3770281/ad-inserter/trunk/ad-inserter.php