WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Easy PayPal Buy Now Button < 1.7.4 - Contributor+ Stored XSS in Shortcode

Description

The plugin 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

Proof of Concept

[wpecpp name="' accesskey='X' onclick='alert(1)'"]

Press Alt + Shift + X in Firefox to trigger the payload.

More information about access keys: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/accesskey

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.7.4

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Submitter
Lana Codes
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-01-19 (about 1 years ago)
Added
2023-01-19 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-01-30 (about 1 years ago)

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