Nexi XPay
CVE-2026-54810
HIGH
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Unauthenticated network-reachable WordPress plugin endpoint with missing authorization (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); description and scorer constrain impact to availability only.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionCVE.org
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Nexi Payments Nexi XPay allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.
This issue affects Nexi XPay: from n/a through 8.3.1.
AnalysisAI
Missing authorization in the Nexi XPay WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 8.3.1) allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exploit incorrectly configured access control security levels, resulting in high impact to availability. Reported by Patchstack with no public exploit identified at time of analysis, the issue stems from broken access control on plugin endpoints used by Italian e-commerce sites integrating Nexi/CartaSi payment processing.
Technical ContextAI
Nexi XPay (formerly CartaSi XPay) is a WordPress plugin that integrates Nexi Payments' XPay gateway - a widely used Italian payment processor - into WooCommerce and similar stores to handle credit card transactions. The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): one or more plugin-exposed actions, AJAX handlers, or REST routes execute privileged operations without verifying that the caller is authorized via WordPress capability checks (current_user_can) or nonce validation. The affected CPE cpe:2.3:a:nexi_payments:nexi_xpay covers all versions through 8.3.1, and Patchstack categorizes the flaw as a Broken Access Control / Authentication Bypass issue on the WordPress plugin attack surface.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patched version is identified in the available data - the Patchstack record only marks 8.3.1 as vulnerable without naming a fixed release, so administrators should monitor the plugin's WordPress.org changelog and the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/cartasi-x-pay/vulnerability/wordpress-nexi-xpay-plugin-8-3-1-broken-access-control-vulnerability) for a 8.3.2 or later update and upgrade as soon as it ships. As compensating controls until a fix lands, deploy a WAF rule (Patchstack, Wordfence, or equivalent) that blocks unauthenticated requests to the plugin's admin-ajax actions and REST routes under /wp-json/ associated with the cartasi-x-pay slug; restrict /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php and the plugin's endpoint paths to known IPs via webserver ACLs if your store traffic pattern allows it (trade-off: may break legitimate checkout callbacks from Nexi, so test the payment flow afterwards); and if the site is non-production or the plugin is rarely used, temporarily deactivate it, accepting that card payments via Nexi XPay will be disabled.
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