# CVE-2026-17012: Restore PayPal Standard for WooCommerce <= 3.1.0 - Payment Bypass via Unvalidated receiver_email

> Attackers can bypass payment verification by paying their own PayPal account, allowing unauthorized order completion in the WooCommerce plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 11 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-645w-cxcg-9mjc

## What is CVE-2026-17012?

CVE-2026-17012 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Accept PayPal & Stripe with Subscriptions for WooCommerce, published on 10 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Accept PayPal & Stripe with Subscriptions for WooCommerce WordPress plugin through 3.1.0 does not verify that the PayPal account which received a payment matches the merchant's configured account before marking the order as paid, allowing unauthenticated buyers to complete a WooCommerce order by paying the full amount to their own PayPal account instead of the merchant's.

Weakness: CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-17012?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-17012?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-17012 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-17012 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-17012 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-17012 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-17012 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Accept PayPal & Stripe with Subscriptions for WooCommerce, published on 10 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-17012 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Accept PayPal & Stripe with Subscriptions for WooCommerce. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-17012/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-17012/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-17012
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17012
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-17012

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-17012/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.