Payment Forms for Paystack <= 3.4.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Payment Forms for Paystack plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE-2024-32130 is likely a duplicate of this issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-5665
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vf69-288w-g5cx
References
Other 9
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L958
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L986
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1013
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1054
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1128
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1164
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/3.4.1/public/class-paystack-forms-public-for-old-themes.php#L1194
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3163889%40payment-forms-for-paystack&new=3163889%40payment-forms-for-paystack&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-forms-for-paystack/tags/4.0.0/includes/classes/class-field-shortcodes.php
More kendysond vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-16535 WordPress Payment Forms for Paystack plugin <= 4.0.1 - SQL Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
- TI-2026-47198 WordPress Payment Forms for Paystack plugin <= 4.0.5 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-34513 WordPress Selar.co Widget plugin <= 1.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-10098 Payment Forms for Paystack <= 4.0.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
Sources
- CVE-2023-5665 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-5665 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vf69-288w-g5cx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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