CVE-2022-4628 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Easy PayPal Buy Now Button WordPress plugin before 1.7.4 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wpplugin	Easy Paypal Buy Now Button

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpplugin:easy_paypal_buy_now_button:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ae719da-c43c-4b3a-bb8a-efa1de20100a

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-13T14:32:04.118Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T14:34:46.969Z

Reserved: 2022-12-21T09:56:51.504Z

Link: CVE-2022-4628

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:48:39.056Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:18.343

Modified: 2025-03-21T15:15:39.010

Link: CVE-2022-4628

Redhat

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