Description
The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_cart_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Published: 2025-05-01
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Stored Cross‑Site Scripting via the wp_cart_button shortcode
Action: Patch Immediately
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-15022 The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_cart_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

Tue, 06 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Tipsandtricks-hq
Tipsandtricks-hq wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:tipsandtricks-hq:wordpress_simple_paypal_shopping_cart:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Tipsandtricks-hq
Tipsandtricks-hq wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

Thu, 01 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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


Thu, 01 May 2025 11:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_cart_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


Subscriptions

Tipsandtricks-hq Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:09:41.654Z

Reserved: 2025-04-22T23:22:48.568Z

Link: CVE-2025-3890

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-01T13:39:41.337Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-05-01T12:15:17.830

Modified: 2025-05-06T14:55:31.320

Link: CVE-2025-3890

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-21T21:15:45Z

Weaknesses