CVE-2026-12966 Direct Payments for WooCommerce < 2.5.3 - Unauthenticated Cross-Customer Order Tampering via digages AJAX Actions
Unauthenticated attackers can tamper with other customers' orders by forging payment states and metadata due to missing ownership verification in AJAX handlers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-12966?
CVE-2026-12966 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Direct Payments for WooCommerce, published on 1 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Direct Payments for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.5.3 does not verify that the requester owns the targeted WooCommerce order in several unauthenticated AJAX handlers before changing its status and overwriting its payment metadata, allowing unauthenticated attackers to tamper with other customers' orders, including forging a "payment sent" state, overwriting the payment-method label, and attaching forged payment-proof files.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-12966?
How do I fix CVE-2026-12966?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-12966 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-2026-12966 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2026-12966 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cp6p-3j8j-57c9.