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The WP Hotel Booking WordPress plugin before 2.3.2 does not verify that a payment notification corresponds to a payment made to the site's own merchant account, nor that the paid amount matches the booking total, allowing unauthenticated users to have their bookings marked as fully paid without any payment reaching the site owner.
AnalysisAI
Payment notification forgery in WP Hotel Booking WordPress plugin before 2.3.2 allows unauthenticated remote users to obtain confirmed hotel bookings without submitting any real payment. The plugin fails to validate two critical conditions when processing inbound payment notifications: that the notification originates from the site's own merchant account, and that the reported payment amount matches the actual booking total. An attacker can exploit this by submitting a crafted payment callback (e.g., a fake IPN-style webhook) to have any booking marked as fully paid. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and this CVE is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Technical ContextAI
WP Hotel Booking is a WordPress plugin designed for hospitality businesses to manage reservations and accept online payments. Payment gateway integrations - particularly those relying on asynchronous payment notification protocols such as PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) or similar webhook-driven callbacks - typically send a POST request to a plugin endpoint after a transaction completes. The plugin must verify the notification's authenticity (merchant account identity) and data integrity (amount matches booking) before updating booking status. Failing to perform these checks is a classic business-logic flaw related to insufficient verification of data authenticity. While no CWE is formally assigned, this maps to CWE-345 (Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity) and CWE-840 (Business Logic Errors). The affected version range is WP Hotel Booking < 2.3.2, as confirmed by WPScan and the ENISA EUVD entry EUVD-2026-54188.
RemediationAI
Update WP Hotel Booking to version 2.3.2 or later, which is confirmed as the patched release per vendor advisory. Plugin updates are available through the standard WordPress admin dashboard under Plugins > Updates, or by downloading directly from the WordPress plugin repository. No specific workarounds are documented in the available references; however, site operators who cannot update immediately should consider temporarily disabling the payment notification endpoint or restricting access to it by IP (to known payment gateway IP ranges only) via the web server or WAF configuration - note that IP-restricting a payment callback endpoint may prevent legitimate payment confirmations from processing, requiring manual order review during that period. The WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e2435361-0a2a-4914-b4d8-7fb28386c4d3/ should be consulted for any additional guidance from the reporter.
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EUVD-2026-54188
GHSA-gr3g-w52p-ff6r