CVE-2026-1380: Bitcoin Donate Button <= 1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 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: 2026-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Bitcoin Donate Button plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the settings page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the plugin's settings, including donation addresses and display configurations, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

lxicon Bitcoin Donate Button: through 1.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bitcoin-donate-button/tags/1.0/btcbutton.php#L1
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bitcoin-donate-button/trunk/btcbutton.php#L1
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3c973dd9-cfa3-4f06-a25a-c2786e3dca4d?source=cve

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