Payment Plugins Braintree For WooCommerce <= 3.2.78 — Missing Authorization to Payment Token Exposure and Transaction Fraud

Am I affected?

• Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Payment Plugins Braintree For WooCommerce.
• No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
• No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

1. Update to version 3.2.79, or a newer patched version
2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
3. Watch Payment Plugins Braintree For WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to type5afe.

The Payment Plugins Braintree For WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the wc-braintree/v1/3ds/vaulted_nonce REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.78. This is due to the endpoint being registered with permission_callback set to __return_true and processing user-supplied token IDs without verifying ownership or authentication. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve payment method nonces for any stored payment token in the system, which can be used to create fraudulent transactions, charge customer credit cards, or attach payment methods to other subscriptions.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

• Advisorywordfence.com

Timeline

1. Nov 11, 2025

   CVE published

   Severity high, CVSS 7.5

2. Nov 13, 2026

   Record last updated