WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Simple Membership < 4.7.8 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via PayPal Subscription Subscriber Name

Description

The plugin does not sanitise a subscriber name value received from an unauthenticated payment approval request, nor escape it when displaying it in the administration dashboard, allowing unauthenticated attackers to store arbitrary JavaScript that executes in an administrator's session.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.7.8

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
Submitter
Yaswanth Reddy Sunkara
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-24 (about 10 days ago)
Added
2026-07-24 (about 9 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-31 (about 2 days ago)

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