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UK Cyber Defence
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CVE-2026-81809

The Paytm Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not properly escape data taken from payment callbacks before using it in a SQL statement, and the integrity check on those callbacks can be forged when the gateway is enabled without…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.18%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.18%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

The Paytm Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 2.8.9 does not properly escape data taken from payment callbacks before using it in a SQL statement, and the integrity check on those callbacks can be forged when the gateway is enabled without credentials, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL injection attacks.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.18% probability · 8th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-89
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%2 October 2026: 0.18%26 October 2026: 0.18%2 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 0.2% on 2 October 2026 to 0.2% on 26 October 2026.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.