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CVE-2026-120538: The Easy Digital Downloads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass leading to administrator account takeover in all versions up to, and incl

CVE-2026-120538 Nov 3, 2026 Source: Vendor

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::m

Source of record The credited names below are quoted verbatim from the vendor's own advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120538

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Credited as Yuto Hyakumoto