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CVE-2026-9189
The Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Payment Bypass via Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. Although `cf7pp_paypal_ipn_handler()` correctly validates IPN authenticity by posting back to PayPal with `cmd=_notify-validate`, it fails to compare the IPN payload's `mc_gross` (payment amount), `mc_currency`, or `receiver_email` fields against the corresponding stored order values before passing the att
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on","vendor":"scottpaterson","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.4.9","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
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Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":5.3,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
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CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-345","description":"CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:73bd850b65f647e33b51b76e4708aa9bb5c1cb5965d4179e32c044d8edf9b8cb · sha256:550638720d804724… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
8 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on/tags/2.4.6/includes/payments/functions.php#L31"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on/tags/2.4.6/includes/payments/paypal_handler.php#L106"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on/tags/2.4.6/includes/payments/paypal_handler.php#L75"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on/tags/2.4.8/includes/payments/functions.php#L31"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:73bd850b65f647e33b51b76e4708aa9bb5c1cb5965d4179e32c044d8edf9b8cb · sha256:550638720d804724… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on/tags/2.4.8/includes/payments/paypal_handler.php#L106"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on/tags/2.4.8/includes/payments/paypal_handler.php#L75"}
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{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3551197/contact-form-7-paypal-add-on"}
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{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e274781-1c20-4224-bc10-26dadb9b1e07?source=cve"}
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Attribution and limitations
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