The answer to the question is positive, due to Wu's formula. See e.g. Milnor-Stasheff, Characteristic classes, lemma 11.13 and theorem 11.14. In fact, all one needs to compute the Stiefel-Whitney classes of a smooth compact manifold (orientable or not) is the cohomology mod 2 (as an algebra) and the action of the Steenrod algebra on it. Both structures are preserved under cohomology isomorphisms induced by continuous maps.
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