CVE-2024-3065 Cross-site scripting in PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode
Administrators can inject arbitrary scripts via plugin settings, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML installations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-3065?
CVE-2024-3065 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in mohsinrasool PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode, published on 23 May 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. CVE-2024-5447 may be a duplicate of this issue.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3065?
How do I fix CVE-2024-3065?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3065 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-3065 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3065 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mcfx-gc63-q26m.