CVE-2024-5447 PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode <= 1.7 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Medium 5.4 Published Updated

Admin users can inject malicious scripts via plugin settings, leading to stored XSS attacks in WordPress multisite environments.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-5447?

CVE-2024-5447 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode, published on 21 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode WordPress plugin through 1.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5447?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now\, Buy Now\, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5447?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5447 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-2024-5447 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-5447 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-7r3w-w46r-49xf.

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