CVE-2022-4042 — The Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations WordPress plugin before 4

The Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations WordPress plugin before 4.3.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disal

01What is this vulnerability?

The Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations WordPress plugin before 4.3.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-12-26T12:27:59.379Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-11T23:24:21.176Z

09References

• wpscan.com — https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8ec76242-717d-4d2d-9c0f-3056cd7c2c90