CVE-2026-16621

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

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: August 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM UTC
Updated: August 26, 2026 at 04:41 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPayment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 9.2.1
Affected range stops below 9.2.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

ExploitVDB EntryTechnical Description
Source: cverecord
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/76c4cff2-1166-45fe-9517-5eda2d24c35d/

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.3MEDIUMWPScan
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