Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Simple Shopping Cart Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-3890

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 May 2025

Summary

The Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting through the 'wp_cart_button' shortcode. This vulnerability arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping practices concerning user-supplied attributes. It enables authenticated users with contributor-level access and above to insert arbitrary web scripts within pages. These scripts will execute when a user accesses the modified pages, potentially compromising user security and integrity.

Affected Version(s)

WordPress Simple Shopping Cart * <= 5.1.3

References

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

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Jack Taylor
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