PT-2025-8920 · WordPress · Thememakers Paypal Express Checkout

István Márton · Published 2025-02-27 · Updated 2025-03-11 · CVE-2025-1689

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkout plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.1.9

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'paypal' shortcode, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. This enables the execution of injected scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkout plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.1.9, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-1689

Affected Products

Thememakers Paypal Express Checkout

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1689 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1689 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/ThemeMakers/tmm_paypal_checkout/commit/d6d3b1877ed705ac171cf7e74a6e866fc135ba22 · Patch
• https://themeforest.net/item/car-dealer-automotive-wordpress-theme-responsive/8574708 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1895241223448994306 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/centry_agent/status/1895846897161814261 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/112598 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6390dba6-423b-48be-b5f0-1018d94f4a32?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/19028 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/dailycve/status/1899510672448221399 · Twitter Post