CVE-2025-14463
Payment Button for PayPal <= 1.2.3.41 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Order Creation
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Payment Button for PayPal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized order creation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3.41. This is due to the plugin exposing a public AJAX endpoint (`wppaypalcheckout_ajax_process_order`) that processes checkout results without any authentication or server-side verification of the PayPal transaction. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary orders on the site with any chosen transaction ID, payment status, product name, amount, or customer information via direct POST requests to the AJAX endpoint, granted they can bypass basic parameter validation. If email sending is enabled, the plugin will also trigger purchase receipt emails to any email address supplied in the request, leading to order database corruption and unauthorized outgoing emails without any real PayPal transaction taking place.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 38 days later
· 38 days later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
naa986 · Payment Button for PayPal
- affected ≤ 1.2.3.41
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/814e50de-3690-4adf-bc01-a63cd71bd1cf?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/trunk/wp-paypal.php#L70 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/tags/1.2.3.41/wp-paypal.php#L70 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/trunk/wp-paypal-checkout.php#L249 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-paypal/tags/1.2.3.41/wp-paypal-checkout.php#L249 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3431974%40wp-paypal&new=3431974%40wp-paypal&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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