CVE-2026-16990
The Payment Button for PayPal WordPress plugin through 1.2.3.44 does not enforce the merchant-configured price server-side and trusts a client-supplied payment amount, allowing unauthenticated attackers to create a real PayPal order against the merchant…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Payment Button for PayPal WordPress plugin through 1.2.3.44 does not enforce the merchant-configured price server-side and trusts a client-supplied payment amount, allowing unauthenticated attackers to create a real PayPal order against the merchant for an arbitrary lower amount.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.19% probability · 9th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.