CVE-2026-4072
WordPress PayPal Donation <= 1.01 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'amount' Shortcode Attribute
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.4 Medium
- Published
- Mar 21, 2026
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 12, 2026
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 | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
WordPress PayPal Donationtstachl |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/99a8b48b-2967-4179-a0eb-626bbe273f03?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/trunk/wp-paypal-donation.php#L271
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/tags/1.01/wp-paypal-donation.php#L271
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/trunk/wp-paypal-donation.php#L260
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-paypal-donation/tags/1.01/wp-paypal-donation.php#L260
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