XSS in Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now\, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode
CVE-2024-5447
The PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode WordPress plugin through 1.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
EPSS: 0.003 (24.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
Affected products
- Mohsinrasool Paypal_pay_now\,_buy_now\,_donation_and_cart_buttons_shortcode
- Unknown Paypal Pay Now, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-5447?
- CVE-2024-5447 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now\, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-06-21.
- How severe is CVE-2024-5447?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2024-5447 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.