ShellCodeX vulnerability brief
MEDIUM
Received
CVE-2026-16621
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.
Published 12 Aug 2026, 12:17 UTC
Last modified 12 Aug 2026, 13:17 UTC
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Attack profile
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Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
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Affected products
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Weakness classification
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Weakness classification is still awaiting analysis.
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Source references
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