Vulnerability · Published Jul 14, 2023 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2023-2082Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin <= 3.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin from buymeacoffee. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The "Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 3.6 due to insufficient sanitization and escaping on the 'text value set via the bmc_post_reception action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions, and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that execute whenever a victim accesses a page with the injected scripts.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| buymeacoffee | Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin | 0 – through 3.6 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ed9f8948-085b-4ac5-befd-c70085aa23cd?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buymeacoffee/trunk/includes/class-buy-me-a-coffee.php?rev=2319979#L162
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/buymeacoffee/trunk/admin/class-buy-me-a-coffee-admin.php?rev=2816542
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fbuymeacoffee%2Ftags%2F3.6&old=2922493&new_path=%2Fbuymeacoffee%2Ftags%2F3.7&new=2922493&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=