# SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard <= 1.12.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via Comment Content

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1831
- **Plugin:** SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard (`suredash`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/suredash/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 1.12.4
- **Fixed in:** 1.12.4 (Update to 1.12.4 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
- **Weakness:** CWE-94
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-10-28)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/suredash
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-27
- **Published:** 2026-10-28
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1831/

## Description

The SureDash plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via comment content in the user profile comments listing in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.3, due to the listing passing the stored comment content through do_shortcode() without neutralizing shortcode brackets. Comments stored outside the plugin's own comment endpoint, or before brackets were escaped on submission, keep their shortcodes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1831/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/suredash/tags/1.12.4/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/suredash/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1831/

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.