CVE-2026-3617
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
21/03/2026
Last modified:
23/03/2026
Description
The Paypal Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'amount' and 'name' shortcode attributes in all versions up to, and including, 0.3. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied shortcode attributes. The swer_paypal_shortcode() function extracts shortcode attributes using extract() and shortcode_atts() at line 89, then directly concatenates the $name and $amount values into HTML input element value attributes at lines 105-106 without applying esc_attr() or any other escaping function. 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-shortcodes/tags/0.3/paypal-shortcodes.php#L105
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-shortcodes/tags/0.3/paypal-shortcodes.php#L106
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-shortcodes/tags/0.3/paypal-shortcodes.php#L89
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-shortcodes/trunk/paypal-shortcodes.php#L105
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-shortcodes/trunk/paypal-shortcodes.php#L106
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-shortcodes/trunk/paypal-shortcodes.php#L89
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a9521ae8-e20e-49dd-a402-5521f8d2d98e?source=cve



