Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-1689

Description

The ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkout plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'paypal' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.1.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Affected products

WordPress/ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkoutllm-create
Range: <=1.1.9
ThemeMakers/tmm_paypal_checkoutllm-create
Range: <=1.1.9
ThemeMakers/ThemeMakers PayPal Express Checkoutv5
Range: 0

Patches

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References

github.com/ThemeMakers/tmm_paypal_checkout/commit/d6d3b1877ed705ac171cf7e74a6e866fc135ba22nvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6390dba6-423b-48be-b5f0-1018d94f4a32nvdThird Party Advisory
themeforest.net/item/car-dealer-automotive-wordpress-theme-responsive/8574708nvdProduct

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