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CVE-2026-12501: WP Travel Engine < 6.8.2 - Unauthenticated Payment Bypass via Missing PayPal IPN Receiver and Amount Verification
- 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: 2026-08-06 · updated 2026-08-26
- Weakness: CWE-345
Description
The WP Travel Engine WordPress plugin before 6.8.2 does not verify that an incoming PayPal payment notification was sent to the site's configured merchant account, nor that the paid amount matches the order total, before marking a booking as paid, allowing unauthenticated attackers to mark bookings as fully paid using a token payment made to an attacker-controlled account.
Affected products
- WP Travel Engine: before 6.8.2 — fixed in 6.8.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: WP Travel Engine 6.8.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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