XSS in Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now\, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode
CVE-2024-5448
The PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode WordPress plugin through 1.7 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (22.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 22.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now\, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode
- Paypal Pay Now, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/c482fe19-b643-41ea-8194-22776b388290/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-5448?
- CVE-2024-5448 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now\, Buy Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-06-21.
- How severe is CVE-2024-5448?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2024-5448 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.