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WordPress Plugin: buymeacoffee: CVE-2023-2082: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 13, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

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.

Solution

buymeacoffee-plugin-cve-2023-2082
Title
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