# SureDash <= 1.12.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Community Posts, Comments, and Profile Bio

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1428
- **Plugin:** SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard (`suredash`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/suredash/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 1.12.3
- **Fixed in:** 1.12.3 (Update to 1.12.3 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-94
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-22)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/suredash
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-21
- **Published:** 2026-10-22
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1428/

## Description

The SureDash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via community post titles and content, comments, comment and post edits, and the profile bio in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.2, due to the software allowing users to submit content that is passed to do_shortcode() or stored and later rendered through do_shortcode() without neutralising shortcode brackets. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1428/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/suredash/tags/1.12.3/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/suredash/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1428/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.