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CVE-2023-5665: Payment Forms for Paystack <= 3.4.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Payment Forms for Paystack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE-2024-32130 is likely a duplicate of this issue.

Affected products

• kendysond Payment Forms for Paystack: through 3.4.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1013
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1054
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1128
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1164
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1194
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L958
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L986
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/4.0.0/includes/classes/class-field-shortcodes.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3163889%40payment-forms-for-paystack&new=3163889%40payment-forms-for-paystack&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/98f80608-f24f-4019-a757-de71cba9902f?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1013
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1054

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