The Hide Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized shortcode execution due to doshortcode being hooked through the commenttext filter in all versions up to and including 1.4.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes available on the target site.
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],
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