{"cve":"CVE-2024-13401","nvd":{"published":"2025-01-17T05:15:09.077","modified":"2026-06-17T07:01:56.637","status":"Deferred","description":"The Payment Button for PayPal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_paypal_checkout' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3.35 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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","score":6.4},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/trunk/main.php#L72","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/trunk/wp-paypal-checkout.php#L3","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3223257%40wp-paypal&new=3223257%40wp-paypal&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=","https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20fc675c-08a4-4d77-9872-335d23146906?source=cve"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:58:20.756570362+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-13401","score":0.00363,"percentile":0.30122,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}