CVE-2024-12500

Summary

CVE-2024-12500 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Philantro – Donations and Donor Management plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 5.2, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts into the plugin's shortcodes, such as 'donate'. The unsanitized and improperly escaped user-supplied attributes in these shortcodes enable the attacker to execute their scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page, potentially leading to unintended actions or information disclosure.

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