VulnCrest
Search
Create account
Report an incident
Radar sectionsDatabase
Check my site
WordPress plugin

Affiliate Super Assistent <= 1.5.3 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

CVE-2024-8478Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.5.3Update to 1.5.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High7.3
CVSS
7.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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:L Availability
Low
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?

Affiliate Super Assistent amazonsimpleadmin

  1. Affected≤ 1.5.3
  2. Patched in1.5.4

Update to 1.5.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.5.3. Version 1.5.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Affiliate Super Assistent.
  • 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 1.5.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Affiliate Super Assistent to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Francesco Carlucci.

The The Affiliate Super Assistent plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.3. This is due to the software allowing users to supply arbitrary shortcodes in comments when the 'Parse comments' option is enabled. 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 Affiliate Super Assistent

All 4
More vulnerabilities in Affiliate Super Assistent
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘doCommentShortcode’ function
≤1.10.2Update to 1.10.3
CVE-2026-19573
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.10.1Update to 1.10.2
CVE-2026-42759
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update and Cache Clearing
≤1.5.1Update to 1.5.2
CVE-2023-27417

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.3

  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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

How we use these sources

Search VulnCrest Radar

Jump to

Are you sure?