Unauthenticated payment bypass via unvalidated PayPal notification
Published Aug 6, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 2026
Insufficient payment verification in ThimPress WP Hotel Booking before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to mark bookings paid via PayPal notices. The PayPal Standard notification handler accepts VERIFIED notices without confirming the receiver belongs to the site's merchant and compares the paid amount with an uninitialized booking total of zero. Any visitor holding a booking key can use a genuine self-payment or zero amount to advance the booking without paying the site owner.
Summary
What happened
Insufficient payment verification in ThimPress WP Hotel Booking before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to mark bookings paid via PayPal notices. The PayPal Standard notification handler accepts VERIFIED notices without confirming the receiver belongs to the site's merchant and compares the paid amount with an uninitialized booking total of zero. Any visitor holding a booking key can use a genuine self-payment or zero amount to advance the booking without paying the site owner.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-15152
- Published
- Aug 6, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2026
- Vendor
- Overdrive Eletrônica
- Product
- WP Hotel Booking
- Classifications
- 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.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <2.3.2
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Public exploit references
- WPScan PayPal payment-bypass proof of conceptproof of concept · validated
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