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CVE-2026-105989: Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7 < 4.0.7 - Unauthenticated Transaction Status Forgery
- 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: 2026-10-10 · updated 2026-10-13
- Weakness: CWE-862
Description
The Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 4.0.7 does not perform any authorization or request-validation checks on one of its AJAX actions, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge the stored transaction status of records and to write the Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 4.0.7's status metadata onto arbitrary posts.
Affected products
- Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7: before 4.0.7 — fixed in 4.0.7
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7 4.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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