CVE-2026-84044 Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering < 2.4.12 - Unauthenticated Payment Bypass via Forged PayPal IPN
Unauthenticated attackers can forge PayPal IPN notifications to mark orders as paid without payment, requiring plugin upgrade.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-84044?
CVE-2026-84044 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering, published on 4 Sep 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-84044?
How do I fix CVE-2026-84044?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-84044 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-84044 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-84044 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rch6-8c35-x7v4.