CVE-2023-0275 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Easy Accept Payments for PayPal WordPress plugin before 4.9.10 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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 0.00469.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Tipsandtricks-hq	Easy Accept Payments For Paypal

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-12354	The Easy Accept Payments for PayPal WordPress plugin before 4.9.10 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aab5d803-d621-4b12-a901-ff4447334d88

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-13T14:32:18.294Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T15:27:24.754Z

Reserved: 2023-01-13T08:58:57.776Z

Link: CVE-2023-0275

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:02:44.100Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:21.783

Modified: 2025-03-21T16:15:16.433

Link: CVE-2023-0275

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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