PayPal Brasil para WooCommerce lacks authorization on gateway changes
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
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The PayPal Brasil para WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, by odefranca, is affected in all versions up to and including 1.7.8. The plugin does not verify that a user is authorized to perform an action, which is a missing authorization flaw (CWE-862). An unauthenticated remote attacker can disable or enable the PayPal Brasil BCDC payment gateway and overwrite its WooCommerce gateway settings, removing PayPal from checkout for all customers.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Description from the CNA
The PayPal Brasil para WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.8. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to disable or enable the PayPal Brasil BCDC payment gateway and overwrite its WooCommerce gateway settings, removing PayPal from checkout for all customers.
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
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for PayPal Brasil para WooCommerce.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-29
Timeline
- 2026-10-28 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-76058
- 2026-10-28 Alias added: GHSA-m954-8rx7-5g9h
- 2026-10-28 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 6
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2fa13ee0-0aee-4929-9bd0-a1375e002d26?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-brasil-para-woocommerce/tags/1.7.5/includes/handlers/api/class-paypal-brasil-bcdc-activate.php#L46
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-brasil-para-woocommerce/tags/1.7.5/includes/handlers/api/class-paypal-brasil-bcdc-activate.php#L64
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-brasil-para-woocommerce/tags/1.7.5/includes/handlers/class-paypal-brasil-handler.php#L55
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/paypal-brasil-para-woocommerce/tags/1.7.5/includes/handlers/api/class-paypal-brasil-api-ppp-activate.php#L45
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3744502%40paypal-brasil-para-woocommerce&new=3744502%40paypal-brasil-para-woocommerce
Sources
- CVE-2026-76058 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-76058 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m954-8rx7-5g9h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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