What is CVE-2026-105989?

CVE-2026-105989 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Accept Paypal Payments Using Contact Form 7, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-10-10.

How severe is CVE-2026-105989?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Accept Paypal Payments Using Contact Form 7

CVE-2026-105989

The Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 4.0.7 does not perform any authorization or request-validation checks on one of its AJAX actions, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge the stored transaction status of records and to write the Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 4.0.7's status metadata onto arbitrary posts.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

Published 2026-10-10 · last modified 2026-10-10.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

No EPSS score from FIRST.org yet. New CVEs usually get one within a few days; no score means no signal yet, not low risk. How EPSS works.

Affected products

Accept Paypal Payments Using Contact Form 7

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/df2b15dd-1748-4dcf-8b4f-8c053dc0dd73/ (technical-description, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-105989?: CVE-2026-105989 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Accept Paypal Payments Using Contact Form 7, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-10-10.
How severe is CVE-2026-105989?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.