Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Network-accessible plugin endpoint requires only subscriber-level auth (PR:L); no confidentiality or availability impact, only financial integrity manipulation.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
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5DescriptionCVE.org
The Premium Packages WordPress plugin before 7.0.7 does not validate a withdrawal request against the requesting user's actual earned balance, allowing any authenticated user, including a subscriber with no sales at all, to submit a payout request for an arbitrary amount, which an administrator may then approve and pay out.
AnalysisAI
Improper payout validation in the Premium Packages WordPress plugin (all versions before 7.0.7) allows any authenticated user - including subscribers with zero sales history - to submit withdrawal requests for arbitrary monetary amounts. Because the plugin never cross-references the requested amount against the user's actual earned balance, a low-privilege attacker can fabricate a payout claim that an administrator may approve and disburse as real funds. A publicly available proof-of-concept exists; no confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV) has been recorded, and EPSS probability stands at 0.14% (4th percentile), suggesting opportunistic rather than widespread targeting.
Technical ContextAI
The affected component is the Premium Packages WordPress plugin, a marketplace extension that manages digital-product sales, vendor balances, and payout workflows. The root cause is classified as CWE-284 (Improper Access Control): the server-side handler that processes withdrawal requests omits a server-side authorisation check verifying that the requesting user's pending payout does not exceed their actual earned balance. This is a classic missing business-logic validation - the plugin likely enforces UI-level restrictions but fails to replicate those constraints at the API or form-processing layer. Affected CPE: cpe:2.3:a:unknown:premium_packages:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covering all versions prior to 7.0.7, as reported by WPScan.
RemediationAI
Update the Premium Packages WordPress plugin to version 7.0.7 or later, which introduces server-side validation of withdrawal amounts against actual earned balances. The vendor-released patch is confirmed available; administrators should apply it immediately via the WordPress plugin update mechanism. If immediate patching is not possible, a targeted compensating control is to temporarily disable the payout/withdrawal submission feature or restrict access to the withdrawal endpoint to trusted vendor roles only - not all authenticated subscriber accounts. Additionally, administrators should audit recent payout requests for anomalous amounts that do not correspond to any sales records. References: WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ba209669-49bb-40f0-976d-7b77fa0a3c85/ and VulDB at https://vuldb.com/vuln/391119.
Same weakness CWE-284 – Improper Access Control
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External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-59914
GHSA-m363-6834-c3r7