Vulnerability in Wp Travel Engine

CVE-2026-12501

The WP Travel Engine WordPress plugin before 6.8.2 does not verify that an incoming PayPal payment notification was sent to the site's configured merchant account, nor that the paid amount matches the order total, before marking a booking as paid, allowing unauthenticated attackers to mark bookings as fully paid using a token payment made to an attacker-controlled account.

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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

EPSS: 0.002 (5.5th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 5th percentile — 5.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2026-12501: held from 0.002 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Wp Travel Engine — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-12501?
CVE-2026-12501 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp Travel Engine, classified under Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-08-06.
How severe is CVE-2026-12501?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.