Payment Gateway for Telcell accepts forged payment notifications
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-345.
Summary
The Payment Gateway for Telcell WordPress plugin before 2.0.5 does not verify the authenticity of incoming payment notifications because the secret used to sign them is empty by default. An unauthenticated remote attacker can forge a valid notification and mark arbitrary WooCommerce orders as paid, and the same handler can mark an attacker-chosen order as failed when given an invalid signature. This is classified as CWE-345, Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. A public exploit is linked in the references.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
Description from the CNA
The Payment Gateway for Telcell WordPress plugin before 2.0.5 does not verify the authenticity of incoming payment notifications, because the secret used to sign them is empty by default, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge a valid notification and mark arbitrary WooCommerce orders as paid. The same handler also marks an attacker-chosen order as failed when given an invalid signature.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Payment Gateway for Telcell | before 2.0.5 | 2.0.5 | Patch available | CNA |
- Payment Gateway for Telcell VendorUnknown Affected before 2.0.5 Fixed in 2.0.5 Patch available CNA
Remediation
Update the Payment Gateway for Telcell plugin to version 2.0.5. The sources list no fixed version for Payment Gateway for Telcell other than 2.0.5.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28
- Fix · CNA Payment Gateway for Telcell (Unknown) Fixed in 2.0.5
Timeline
- 2026-10-21 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-103301
- 2026-10-21 Alias added: GHSA-mcx5-9495-x4v5
References
Sources
- CVE-2026-103301 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-103301 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-mcx5-9495-x4v5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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