CVE-2026-4072

MEDIUM

WordPress PayPal Donation <= 1.01 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'amount' Shortcode Attribute

Title source: cna

Description

The WordPress PayPal Donation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'donate' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.01. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes such as 'amount', 'email', 'title', 'return_url', 'cancel_url', 'ccode', and 'image'. The wordpress_paypal_donation_create() function uses extract(shortcode_atts(...)) to process shortcode attributes and then directly interpolates these values into HTML output within single-quoted attribute values without any escaping. 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 10.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
tstachl/WordPress PayPal Donation < 1.01
Published Mar 21, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 21, 2026