Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkout Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-1689

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Thememakers
Status
Thememakers Paypal Express Checkout
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 February 2025

Summary

The ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkout plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate sanitization of user input and failure to escape output on the 'paypal' shortcode. This issue allows authenticated users with contributor-level permissions and above to inject malicious scripts into web pages. When these pages are accessed by other users, the scripts will execute, potentially leading to unauthorized actions on behalf of the user and compromising the security of the site.

Affected Version(s)

ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkout * <= 1.1.9

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://themeforest.net/item/car-dealer-automotive-wordpr...
https://github.com/ThemeMakers/tmm_paypal_checkout/commit...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

István Márton
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