What's the vulnerability?
The Eventin WordPress plugin before 4.1.24 does not verify that a completed payment corresponds to the order it is applied to, confirming only that the payment gateway reports the transaction as successful, not its amount, currency, or which order it belongs to, allowing unauthenticated visitors to mark unpaid orders of any value as paid by replaying the transaction of a single genuine low-value payment.
Business impact & how R4IM helps
This advisory is on our active-exploitation watchlist. Attackers are using it for initial access, privilege escalation or lateral movement in real-world intrusions. R4IM's offensive security and SOC teams already have detections, exploit replicas and remediation playbooks for this issue.
Targeted vulnerability assessment to confirm which of your assets are actually exploitable — not just theoretically affected.
Our pentesters chain this CVE into realistic attack paths so you see business impact, not just a scan finding.
If the affected product is internet-facing, our AppSec team will harden it against this and related OWASP-class issues.
Continuous monitoring with custom detections for this CVE deployed across your endpoints, identity and cloud.
Recommended remediation
- Inventory all assets running the affected vendor and product, including shadow IT and third-party hosted instances.
- Apply the vendor patch or mitigation referenced in the advisories below. Where no patch exists, isolate the asset or restrict network exposure.
- Hunt for indicators of prior compromise — exploitation of this class of bug often predates public disclosure.
- Deploy detections for the exploit primitives (network signature, EDR rule, WAF rule) and re-test after remediation.
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Vendor & research references
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/371e6803-f159-4f80-8b75-a7ec71e6ba4d/ · contact@wpscan.com