What is CVE-2025-11859?

CVE-2025-11859 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Coenjacobs Paypal Donation Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-11-11.

How severe is CVE-2025-11859?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

XSS in Coenjacobs Paypal Donation Shortcode

CVE-2025-11859

The Paypal Donation Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'paypal' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.1. This is due to the plugin not properly sanitizing user input and output of the 'title' and 'text' parameters. 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (7.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Coenjacobs Paypal Donation Shortcode — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-11859?: CVE-2025-11859 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Coenjacobs Paypal Donation Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-11-11.
How severe is CVE-2025-11859?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.