---
id: CVE-2026-105989
title: >-
  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 …
summary: >-
  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 …
severity: medium
cvss: 5.3
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-862
published: '2026-10-10'
updated: '2026-10-13'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-13T20:36:00.850'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105989'
references:
  - url: 'https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/df2b15dd-1748-4dcf-8b4f-8c053dc0dd73/'
    label: contact@wpscan.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00215
epssPercentile: 0.11747
ingestedAt: '2026-10-10T06:24:42.863Z'
product: Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7
affected:
  - accept_paypal_payments_using_contact_form_7 < 4.0.7
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'yes'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-10-10T12:03:40.922787Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.