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Simple Link Directory <= 8.4.5 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

CVE-2024-12417Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤8.4.5Update to 8.4.6 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Simple Link Directory – AI Powered simple-link-directory

  1. Affected≤ 8.4.5
  2. Patched in8.4.6

Update to 8.4.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 8.4.5. Version 8.4.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Simple Link Directory – AI Powered.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 8.4.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Simple Link Directory – AI Powered to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Arkadiusz Hydzik.

The The Simple Link Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.5. 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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Simple Link Directory – AI Powered

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes
≤8.9.2Update to 8.9.4
CVE-2026-7209
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤8.8.3Update to 8.8.4
CVE-2025-67465
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤8.8.3Update to 8.8.4
CVE-2025-67576
Critical9.8Unauthenticated SQL Injection
<7.7.2Update to 7.7.2
CVE-2022-0760
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
<7.3.5Update to 7.3.5
CVE-2019-13463

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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