CVE-2014-4552 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in library/includes/payment/paypalexpress/DoDirectPayment.php in the Spotlight (spotlightyour) plugin 4.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the paymentType parameter

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in library/includes/payment/paypalexpress/DoDirectPayment.php in the Spotlight (spotlightyour) plugin 4.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the paymentType parameter

Published Jul 2, 2014

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.63%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in library/includes/payment/paypalexpress/DoDirectPayment.php in the Spotlight (spotlightyour) plugin 4.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the paymentType parameter.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.63% 0.01629

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01629

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.63% (0.01629)	75.32th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.63% (0.01629)	73.01th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.17% (0.00174)	35.65th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	2.73% (0.02727)	76.54th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.17% (0.00174)	36.53th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.14% (0.00140)	51.21th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 26, 2024	0.14% (0.00140)	49.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.14% (0.00140)	47.91th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (1)

http://codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-spotlightyour-a3-cross-site-scripting-xss
x_refsource_MISCExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-spotlightyour-a3-cross-site-scripting-xss		x_refsource_MISCExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 2, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jun 23, 2014

Link CVE-2014-4552

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-4552

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-4552