PayPal Plugin Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
CVE-2024-5448

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Paypal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 June 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

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

Affected Version(s)

PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode 0 <= 1.7

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-5448 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c482fe19-b643-41ea-8194-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Bob Matyas
WPScan
.