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.
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History
24 Apr 2026, 16:27
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Information
Published : 2026-03-21 04:17
Updated : 2026-04-24 16:27
NVD link : CVE-2026-4072
Mitre link : CVE-2026-4072
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-4072
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Products Affected
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CWE
CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
