CVE-2026-12738 Missing authorization in WP Easy Pay – Payment and Donation form Builder for Square
Authenticated subscribers can unpublish arbitrary posts and pages due to missing authorization checks in the WP Easy Pay plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-12738?
CVE-2026-12738 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in saadiqbal WP Easy Pay – Payment and Donation form Builder for Square, published on 11 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WP Easy Pay – Payment and Donation form Builder for Square plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to set the status of arbitrary posts and pages to 'draft', effectively unpublishing arbitrary site content.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-12738?
How do I fix CVE-2026-12738?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-12738 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-12738 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-12738 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h64r-hhm8-6c7c.