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CVE-2024-5448: PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode <= 1.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-06-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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 products

• PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode: through 1.7

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c482fe19-b643-41ea-8194-22776b388290/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c482fe19-b643-41ea-8194-22776b388290/

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