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CVE-2026-120538: Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.7.2 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass to Administrator Account Takeover via Guest Checkout Email Binding at PayPal Capture

HighCVSS 8.1 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 32/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.43% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass leading to administrator account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.2. During a PayPal guest checkout, the email address entered in the guest-checkout field is trusted as proof of identity: edd_get_purchase_form_user() binds the new guest order to an existing WordPress user purely on an email-address match, rewriting the order's user_id to that user's ID. The PayPal capture sink PurchaseUser::maybe_log_in_after_capture() then looked the user up by the order email (get_user_by( 'email', $order->email )) and, when $order->user_id equalled that user's ID (which the email-binding step guarantees), issued an authenticated session with wp_set_auth_cookie(). An unauthenticated attacker who starts a guest checkout using an administrator's email address (where that administrator has no existing EDD customer record) and completes the PayPal purchase flow therefore receives an authenticated session as that administrator — a full account takeover. The same sink is reachable through the standard PayPal checkout and the REST UnbrandedCard and Fastlane flows.

EUVD-2026-115672

Published: Nov 3, 2026
Updated: Nov 8, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 37th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 32 / 40 · 8.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · Wordfence: 8.1; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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Versions reported by the vendor

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smub Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy
- up to and including 3.7.2affected · semver

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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CVE-2025-11271Easy Digital Download <= 3.5.2 - Insufficient Verification to Order Manipulation
21Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2025-8102Aug 20, 2025 · Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.5.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Plugin Deactivation via edd_sendwp_disconnect and edd_sendwp_remote_install Functions
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2025-14783Dec 31, 2025 · Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.6.2 - Unvalidated Redirect in Password Reset Flow via edd_redirect
17Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-7533May 28, 2026 · Easy Digital Downloads <= 3.6.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Payment Account Hijacking via 'square_tokens' Parameter
17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Credits

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Yuto Hyakumotofinder

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2026-1247697 days apartEasy Digital Downloads <= 3.6.9 - Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Arbitrary File Upload via 'edd-import-file' Parameter
28Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: High
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

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Change log (2)

SSVC exploitation— → noneNov 8, 2026, 9:07 PM UTC
Exploit maturity— → noneNov 3, 2026, 6:08 AM UTC

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-digital-downloads/tags/3.7.0/includes/customers/customer-actions.php#L49

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