Buy Me a Coffee – Button and Widget Plugin <= 3.6 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2023-2082
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published July 13, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug buymeacoffee (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.6
Patched Version
  • 3.7
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