CVE-2026-120538: Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy <= 3.7.2

No VulnCrest analysis published for this CVE yet. Below is the original CNA/NVD description, unmodified.

Description

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.

Exploits & detection

No public PoC or detection template found yet.

In the news

Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 26, 2026 to November 1, 2026)Wordfence · 05 Nov 2026

Timeline

Published: 03 Nov 2026
Last modified upstream: 08 Nov 2026

Sources & licenses

CVE / CVSS / CWE

NVD record ↗ (unmodified). This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. CVE® © The MITRE Corporation.

Exploitation

CISA KEV (CC0) · EPSS by FIRST.org

References used for the analysis

Analysis, summary and remediation

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