CVE-2021-24815
Paypal Donation < 1.3.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Accept Donations with PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.3.2 does not escape the Amount Menu Name field of created Buttons, which could allow a high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
The Accept Donations with PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.3.2 does not escape the Amount Menu Name field of created Buttons, which could allow a high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
CVE-2021-24815- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 Low
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
Paypal Donation < 1.3.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Accept Donations with PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.3.2 does not escape the Amount Menu Name field of created Buttons, which could allow a high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
CVE-2021-24815- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-11727 No score
The Accept Donations with PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.3.2 does not escape the Amount Menu Name field of created Buttons, which could allow a high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
EUVD-2021-11727- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-f22j-qf79-3jj5 No score
The Accept Donations with PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.3.2 does not escape the Amount Menu...
The Accept Donations with PayPal WordPress plugin before 1.3.2 does not escape the Amount Menu Name field of created Buttons, which could allow a high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- Record
GHSA-f22j-qf79-3jj5- Weakness
- CWE-79, CWE-352
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, products | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2021-24815 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Scott Paterson Accept Donations With Paypal, published November 17, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.62%, the 49th percentile. No source names a fixed version.