Vulnerability · Published Jul 20, 2026 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2026-12972PayPlus Payment Gateway < 8.2.2 - Unauthenticated Order Payment Metadata Tampering

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity improper access control in PayPlus Payment Gateway from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 77.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	PayPlus Payment Gateway	0 – before 8.2.2

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcd091d3-f830-4675-a3d5-926f4aa5a7a5/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description