# CVE-2022-2565: Best Payments Plugin for WP < 4.2.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious scripts via donation forms, potentially compromising admin accounts in the Simple Payment Donations & Subscriptions plugin.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Sep 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-phr2-m496-gqwf

## What is CVE-2022-2565?

CVE-2022-2565 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Simple Payment Donations & Subscriptions Plugin by Paymattic – Best Payments Plugin for WP, published on 5 Sep 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Simple Payment Donations & Subscriptions WordPress plugin before 4.2.1 does not sanitise and escape user input given in its forms, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2565?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Paymattic Simple Payment Donations \& Subscriptions.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-2565?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2565 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-2565 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2565 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2565 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-2565 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Simple Payment Donations & Subscriptions Plugin by Paymattic – Best Payments Plugin for WP, published on 5 Sep 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2565 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Simple Payment Donations & Subscriptions Plugin by Paymattic – Best Payments Plugin for WP. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2565/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2565/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2565
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2565
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2565

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2565/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.