Vulnerability Report
Plugin Medium No patch listed CVE-2023-40664

Donations Made Easy – Smart Donations <= 4.0.12 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The Donations Made Easy – Smart Donations plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the rednao_smart_donations_save_form_values() function called via a nopriv AJAX in versions up to, and including, 4.0.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Quick Answer

CVE-2023-40664 is a medium severity with CVSS 6.1 Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the Plugin Donations Made Easy – Smart Donations. It affects Versions up to 4.0.12 and is listed without a confirmed patched release.

Published
Aug 18, 2023
Last Updated
Jan 22, 2024
Slug
smart-donations
Operational Summary

What the operator needs to know

Patch Status
No patched release listed
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Operator Briefing

CVE-2023-40664 is tracked for the Plugin Donations Made Easy – Smart Donations as medium severity with CVSS 6.1. The affected range is Versions up to 4.0.12. No fixed release is listed in this feed entry, so operators should monitor the vendor and reference links before accepting the risk.

Issue Type
Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Primary Fixed Version
Not published
Primary Affected Range
Versions up to 4.0.12
Tracking ID
CVE-2023-40664
Detailed Metadata
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug
smart-donations View on wordpress.org
CVE CVE-2023-40664
Patched Versions
No patched versions published.
Affected Versions
Versions up to 4.0.12
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