WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - 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 WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_cart_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
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-2025-3890
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g58j-9633-p589
References
Other 3
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/tags/5.1.2/includes/wpsc-shortcodes-related.php#L20
- https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/simple-wp-shopping-cart-installation-usage-290#step-1-inserting-an-add-to-cart-button
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3284572/
More mra13 Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-04270 WordPress Simple Shopping Cart < 4.6.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2025-03422 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2013-02366 Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8
- TI-2023-01352 The WP Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2025-03436 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference via 'quantity' CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
- TI-2023-05954 WordPress Simple Shopping Cart <= 4.7.1 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
Sources
- CVE-2025-3890 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-3890 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-g58j-9633-p589 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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