How severe is CVE-2024-3065?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

XSS in Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode

CVE-2024-3065

The PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. CVE-2024-5447 may be a duplicate of this issue.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (19.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3065?: CVE-2024-3065 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2024-05-23.
How severe is CVE-2024-3065?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.