CVE-2024-13401
The Payment Button for PayPal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_paypal_checkout' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3.35 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on…
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Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.35%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Payment Button for PayPal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_paypal_checkout' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3.35 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.35% probability · 29th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/trunk/main.php#L72
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/trunk/wp-paypal-checkout.php#L3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3223257%40wp-paypal&new=3223257%40wp-paypal&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20fc675c-08a4-4d77-9872-335d23146906?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.