Description
The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 3.6 due to insufficient sanitization and escaping on the 'text value set via the bmc_post_reception action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions, and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a victim accesses a page with the injected scripts.
Published: 2023-07-14
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-33608 The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 3.6 due to insufficient sanitization and escaping on the 'text value set via the bmc_post_reception action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions, and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a victim accesses a page with the injected scripts.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin <= 3.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Buymeacoffee Buy Me A Coffee
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:31:39.516Z

Reserved: 2023-04-14T19:26:48.435Z

Link: CVE-2023-2082

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:12:20.217Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-14T05:15:09.397

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:18:11.180

Link: CVE-2023-2082

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

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Weaknesses