CVE-2024-5447 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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)

Published: 2024-06-21

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 1.7

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mohsinrasool:paypal_pay_now\,_buy_now\,_donation_and_cart_buttons_shortcode:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00171.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a692b869-1666-42d1-b56d-dfcccd68ab67/

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00074}`	epss `{'score': 0.00117}`

Subscriptions

Mohsinrasool Paypal Pay Now\, Buy Now\, Donation And Cart Buttons Shortcode

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-21T06:00:06.279Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:11:12.768Z

Reserved: 2024-05-28T19:53:07.972Z

Link: CVE-2024-5447

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:11:12.768Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-21T06:15:12.757

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:47:42.057

Link: CVE-2024-5447

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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