{"id":"CVE-2026-4072","aliases":["EUVD-2026-14177","GHSA-jxp3-mpj8-9vw7"],"status":"published","title":"WordPress PayPal Donation \u003c= 1.01 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'amount' Shortcode Attribute","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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00205,"percentile":0.10609,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-03-21T03:26:56Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:55:56Z","products":[{"vendor":"tstachl","product":"wordpress paypal donation"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/99a8b48b-2967-4179-a0eb-626bbe273f03?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/trunk/wp-paypal-donation.php#L271"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/tags/1.01/wp-paypal-donation.php#L271"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/trunk/wp-paypal-donation.php#L260"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/tags/1.01/wp-paypal-donation.php#L260"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4072"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxp3-mpj8-9vw7"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-4072","title":"WordPress PayPal Donation \u003c= 1.01 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'amount' Shortcode Attribute","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-21T03:26:56.908Z","modified":"2026-04-08T17:10:56.76Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:19:59.369956Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-14177","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-21T03:26:56Z","modified":"2026-04-08T17:10:56Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:24:48.048938Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-jxp3-mpj8-9vw7","title":"The WordPress PayPal Donation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting...","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-21T06:30:25Z","modified":"2026-03-21T06:30:38Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:06:45.979177Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-4072","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.","status":"published","published":"2026-03-21T04:17:40.413Z","modified":"2026-06-17T10:55:56.62Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:10.126802Z"}]}}