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Unknown Simple Membership — Simple Membership < 4.7.7 - Unauthenticated Payment Bypass via Missing PayPal IPN Receiver Verification
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L N N U N L N 5.3 .0016 5.3 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Simple Membership unspecified —
TIMELINE
Jul 7 Reserved by WPScan
Aug 6 Published (CNA: WPScan)
Aug 7 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-14936 (Unknown Simple Membership). Public exploit reference added.
Description
The Simple Membership WordPress plugin before 4.7.7 does not verify that a PayPal payment notification was sent to the site's own configured merchant account before activating a membership, allowing unauthenticated users to activate or extend a membership using a payment made to an arbitrary PayPal account they control.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| July 7, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by WPScan |
| August 6, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: WPScan) |
| August 7, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-14936 (Unknown Simple Membership). Public exploit reference added. |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| Unknown | Simple Membership | — | — | — |
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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-14936 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.