PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode Plugin cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode Plugin up to 1.7 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Shortcode Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-5447. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in PayPal Pay Now, Buy Now, Donation and Cart Buttons Shortcode Plugin up to 1.7 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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)

The weakness was disclosed by Bob Matyas. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-5447 since 05/28/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.6

VulDB Base Score: 2.4
VulDB Temp Score: 2.4
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

05/28/2024 🔍
06/21/2024 +24 days 🔍
06/21/2024 +0 days 🔍
03/22/2025 +274 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Researcher: Bob Matyas
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-5447 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-5447
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-269367

Entryinfo

Created: 06/21/2024 14:07
Updated: 03/22/2025 20:23
Changes: 06/21/2024 14:07 (54), 06/24/2024 21:55 (12), 03/22/2025 20:23 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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