Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations <= 5.0.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via 'pt_form_field[pt-user-role]' Parameter
The Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.3. The 5.0.3 patch introduced a wp_hash()/hash_equals() signature gate on the pt-paytium-user-data field, but left a second filter — pt_cf_checkout_meta(), registered on the pt_meta_values hook after the signed builder — that copies every $_POST['pt_form_field'][*] key verbatim into the payment meta array without any signature verification; this allows the pt-user-role value it copies to overwrite the signed path's output, after which paytium_user_data_processing() reads the persisted _pt-user-role post meta and passes it directly as the role argument to wp_insert_user(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a new WordPress account with the administrator role and fully take over the site. Exploitation requires submitting a payment through a publicly-exposed [paytium] shortcode form and completing the resulting payment flow, after which the attacker can seize the new administrator account via the standard lost-password flow on their supplied email address.
CVE-2026-18467
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-18467
Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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- Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "paytiumsupport",
"product": "Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"versionType": "semver",
"lessThanOrEqual": "5.0.3"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-18467
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Publisher severity
critical
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #1757 · Revision 1
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