CVE-2023-0535 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Donation Block For PayPal WordPress plugin before 2.1.0 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.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Donation Block For Paypal Project	Donation Block For Paypal

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:donation_block_for_paypal_project:donation_block_for_paypal:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8c50321a-dba8-4379-9b9c-4c349e44b2ed

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:15:00 +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: 2023-02-27T15:24:38.235Z

Updated: 2025-03-10T18:12:41.061Z

Reserved: 2023-01-27T10:50:21.786Z

Link: CVE-2023-0535

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:17:49.427Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-27T16:15:12.313

Modified: 2025-03-10T19:15:37.457

Link: CVE-2023-0535

Redhat

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