Unauthenticated booking confirmation via unbound PayPal notifications
Published Aug 6, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 2026
Payment validation bypass in Rustaurius Five Star Restaurant Reservations before 2.7.23 allows remote attackers to confirm unpaid bookings. The PayPal IPN handler accepts a genuine VERIFIED notification without checking the receiver, amount, payment status, or ownership, and trusts its booking_id field. Exploitation requires PayPal deposits and a pending reservation identifier; no WordPress account is required, and the booking becomes paid and confirmed with an attacker-controlled underpayment and receipt.
Summary
What happened
Payment validation bypass in Rustaurius Five Star Restaurant Reservations before 2.7.23 allows remote attackers to confirm unpaid bookings. The PayPal IPN handler accepts a genuine VERIFIED notification without checking the receiver, amount, payment status, or ownership, and trusts its booking_id field. Exploitation requires PayPal deposits and a pending reservation identifier; no WordPress account is required, and the booking becomes paid and confirmed with an attacker-controlled underpayment and receipt.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-15147
- Published
- Aug 6, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2026
- Vendor
- Rustaurius
- Product
- Five Star Restaurant Reservations
- Classifications
- CWE-639, CWE-345, T1565.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 6, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2.7.23
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- WPScan PayPal IPN proof of conceptfunctional · validated
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