Plugins · easy-paypal-donation · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 1.5.7
- Last updated
- 2026-10-07
- Active installs
- 10,000+
- Known issues on record
- 4
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 7.1.4 · PHP 5.4+
Add a PayPal or Stripe Donation Button to your website and start collecting donations today. No Coding Required. Official PayPal & Stripe Partner. — by Scott Paterson
What to do
- Update to the latest version (1.5.7). Anything older than 1.5.6 has at least one known issue listed below. Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan.
With WP-CLI: wp plugin get easy-paypal-donation --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update easy-paypal-donation updates it.
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Known vulnerabilities
4 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.
medium 6.5 CVE-2026-65518 · published 2026-07-23
Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe (1.5.5 and older)
- Affected
- 1.5.5 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.5.6
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Contributor Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe <= 1.5.5 versions.
medium 4.7 CVE-2025-68602 · published 2025-12-24
Open redirect in Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe (1.5.2 and older)
- Affected
- 1.5.2 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.5.3
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in Scott Paterson Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe easy-paypal-donation allows Phishing.This issue affects Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe: from n/a through <= 1.5.2.
medium 6.1 CVE-2025-47517 · published 2025-05-07
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe (1.4.5 and older)
- Affected
- 1.4.5 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.5
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Scott Paterson Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe easy-paypal-donation allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe: from n/a through <= 1.4.5.
medium 6.1 CVE-2024-13728 · published 2025-02-23
Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) in Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe (1.4.4 and older)
- Affected
- 1.4.4 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.4.5 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the rf parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Recent activity
- 2026-10-07 — latest release on wordpress.org (1.5.7).
- 2026-07-23 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2026-65518), fixed in 1.5.6.
- 2025-12-24 — Open redirect disclosed (CVE-2025-68602), fixed in 1.5.3.
- 2025-05-07 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) disclosed (CVE-2025-47517), fixed in 1.5.
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Browse vulnerabilities
- Published this week
- Unpatched in the latest version
- By type of vulnerability
- Plugins by Scott Paterson (5 tracked)
Types found in this plugin: Cross-site scripting (XSS) (2) · Open redirect (1) · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/easy-paypal-donation (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.
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