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CVE-2026-3177: Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More <= 1.8.9.7 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity to Unauthenticated Donation Status Forgery via Stripe Webhook

• 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: 2026-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-345

Description

The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in versions up to, and including, 1.8.9.7. This is due to missing cryptographic verification of incoming Stripe webhook events. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to forge payment_intent.succeeded webhook payloads and mark pending donations as completed without a real payment.

Affected products

• smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More: through 1.8.9.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3485023/charitable
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc3b2645-7b57-4884-99c5-e37dbd4a9600?source=cve

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