CVE-2026-16621 PUBLISHED

Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce < 9.2.1 - Unauthenticated Payment Bypass via PayPal Advanced Return Handler

Assigner: WPScan
Reserved: 22.07.2026 Published: 12.08.2026 Updated: 12.08.2026

The Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 9.2.1 does not verify that payment actually succeeded before completing an order in its PayPal return handler: it reads attacker-controlled parameters, performs no amount comparison and no order-ownership check, and completes the order even when the server-side gateway verification fails, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to mark arbitrary orders as paid without paying.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor Unknown
Product Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 9.2.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala finder
  • WPScan coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity CWE