Restaurant Menu accepts forged PayPal notifications
Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering before 2.4.12 does not verify that a PayPal payment notification originated from PayPal. An unauthenticated buyer can forge the notification and mark their own unpaid order as paid and completed.
- Component
- Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering
- Plugin slug
restaurant-menu-and-food-ordering- Affected
- < 2.4.12
- Safe version
2.4.12- Published
- Sep 04, 2026
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Sep 04, 2026 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update to 2.4.12 or later and reconcile completed orders against confirmed PayPal transactions before fulfillment.
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 Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering WordPress plugin before 2.4.12 does not verify that a PayPal payment notification genuinely originates from PayPal, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge a payment notification and mark their own order as paid and completed without making any payment.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N