Vulnerability · Published Apr 7, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-3177Charitable – 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
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity insufficient verification of data authenticity in Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More from smub. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 6% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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 (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| smub | Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More | 0 – through 1.8.9.7 |
Weakness: CWE-345 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N