PayPlus Payment Gateway: A security weakness
PayPlus Payment Gateway is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is < 8.2.2.
- Component
- PayPlus Payment Gateway
- Plugin slug
payplus-payment-gateway- Affected
- < 8.2.2
- Safe version
8.2.2- Published
- Jul 20, 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jul 20, 2026 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update PayPlus Payment Gateway to 8.2.2 or later, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The PayPlus Payment Gateway WordPress plugin before 8.2.2 does not perform authorization or order-ownership validation in one of its AJAX actions available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to disclose the secret order key of arbitrary WooCommerce orders and, under some configurations, to modify order statuses.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N