CVE-2024-5447 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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)

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 0.00067.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

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}`

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

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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