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CVE-2025-12752: Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal <= 1.1.7 - Unauthenticated Fake Payment Creation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-22 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-345

Description

The Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to fake payment creation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.7. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying the authenticity of an IPN request. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create fake payment entries that have not actually occurred.

Affected products

• scottpaterson Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal: through 1.1.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subscriptions-memberships-for-paypal/trunk/includes/public_ipn.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3397608%40subscriptions-memberships-for-paypal&new=3397608%40subscriptions-memberships-for-paypal&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f706b78-2d67-442c-b7a0-7d7a0fd24b2d?source=cve

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