Cross-site scripting in tstachl WordPress PayPal Donation
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 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.
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-2026-4072
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jxp3-mpj8-9vw7
References
Other 5
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-4072 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-4072 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jxp3-mpj8-9vw7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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