CVE-2026-12972 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 8.2.2 does not perform authorization or order-ownership validation in one of its AJAX actions available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to tamper with the payment-related metadata of arbitrary WooCommerce orders.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00132.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcd091d3-f830-4675-a3d5-926f4aa5a7a5/

History

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-284
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 8.2.2 does not perform authorization or order-ownership validation in one of its AJAX actions available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to tamper with the payment-related metadata of arbitrary WooCommerce orders.
Title		PayPlus Payment Gateway < 8.2.2 - Unauthenticated Order Payment Metadata Tampering
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcd091d3-f830-4675-a3d5-926f4aa5a7a5/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-07-20T06:00:04.142Z

Updated: 2026-07-20T15:00:38.378Z

Reserved: 2026-06-23T09:47:52.530Z

Link: CVE-2026-12972

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-20T15:00:29.985Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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