Worldpay Payment Forgery in GetPaid WordPress Plugin

Publication date: 2026-08-06

Last updated on: 2026-08-06

Assigner: WPScan

Description

The GetPaid WordPress plugin before 2.8.55 does not verify the authenticity of incoming Worldpay payment notifications, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge a notification that marks a pending invoice as paid without any payment being made.

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Meta Information

Published

2026-08-06

Last Modified

2026-08-06

Generated

2026-08-07

AI Q&A

2026-08-07

EPSS Evaluated

N/A

NVD

CVE-2026-12901

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
getpaid	getpaid	to 2.8.55 (exc)

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Exploitability

CWE

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CWE ID	Description
CWE-UNKNOWN

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability affects the GetPaid WordPress plugin before version 2.8.55. It allows unauthenticated attackers to forge payment notifications from Worldpay, tricking the system into marking invoices as paid without any actual payment being made.

Impact Analysis

Attackers could exploit this to obtain products or services without paying by falsifying payment confirmations. This could lead to financial losses for merchants using the plugin.

Mitigation Strategies

Update the GetPaid WordPress plugin to version 2.8.55 or later to address the vulnerability. Disable the plugin temporarily if an update is not immediately available.

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