WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode <= 1.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
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
``` [paypal_button type="addtocart" name='name' amount="199: quantity="1-5" add_note="test note" quantity_txt_postfix="test postfix" field_sep="<script>alert(1)</script>"] ```
Affects Plugins
No known fix References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Bob Matyas
Submitter
Bob Matyas
Submitter website
Submitter twitter
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2024-05-31 (about 30 days ago)
Added
2024-05-31 (about 29 days ago)
Last Updated
2024-05-31 (about 29 days ago)
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