CVE-2026-3177 Security feature bypass in Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More
Unauthenticated attackers can forge Stripe webhooks to mark donations as completed without payment, bypassing financial verification in the Charitable WordPress plugin.
- 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-2026-3177?
CVE-2026-3177 is a medium-severity vulnerability in smub Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More, published on 7 Apr 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in versions up to, and including, 1.8.9.7. This is due to missing cryptographic verification of incoming Stripe webhook events. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to forge payment_intent.succeeded webhook payloads and mark pending donations as completed without a real payment.
Weakness: CWE-345
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-3177?
How do I fix CVE-2026-3177?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-3177 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-3177 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-3177 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vqf2-5h8g-fv6r.