Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy: Cross-site scripting
Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy
- Plugin slug
easy-digital-downloads- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 29, 2025
This CVE was published May 29, 2025 and is one of 66 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's edd_receipt shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N