PayPal Standard Suddenly Appearing as Payment Option

  • Resolved Kimberly189

    (@kimberly189)


    5 months, 2 weeks ago

    I run 4 sites with WooCommerce. On one site this morning I suddenly saw “PayPal Standard” as an option at checkout. Fortunately the Order made by the client was reverted to “On Hold” due to a validation error. But it caught me by surprise. I do NOT have PayPal Standard plugin activated or even installed although I used it years ago. It does not appear on my Plugins page – but it was in my Woo>Settings>Payment. So where did this come from? Is it related to the recent security vulnerability requiring us to install version 8.9.3? I am running 8.9.3.

    I immediately disabled the PayPal standard option in Settings>Payments but I wanted to report this in case others are seeing a similar issue.

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  • Plugin Support Shameem R. a11n

    (@shameemreza)

    Hi @kimberly189

    I’ve tried to replicate the issue you’re experiencing but couldn’t. I’ve updated from an older version to the latest one, and also tried a fresh install. However, PayPal Standard still isn’t showing up. Could you please check if there’s any active code snippet or plugin on your site that could restore PayPal Standard?

    The best way to determine this is to conduct a conflict test: https://woocommerce.com/document/how-to-test-for-conflicts/

    I hope that helps! Let me know once you have done a conflict test!

    I just had exactly the same with a customers site. The paypal account linked was definitely not his.

    Edit: the linked paypal account was “[email protected]”.

    The site was fully updated two weeks ago, still investigating. Just wanted to let you know this was not an incident.

    Plugin Support omarfpg a11n

    (@omarfpg)

    Hi @uniquemade,

    Thank you for reaching out and for sharing details on the issue.

    We want to dive deeper into this. Since every setup is unique, kindly create your own topic so we can look further into this issue and assist you properly. This will also help us follow with the forum guidelines.

    You can create a new topic here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/woocommerce/#new-topic-0.

    Please include all the details you know about it or what you have done so we can start where you left off. Kindly include details as to when did this happen to you, and if you can provide screenshots that’d be awesome!

    We are looking forward to hearing from you.

    Cheers!
    -OP

    Plugin Support omarfpg a11n

    (@omarfpg)

    Hi there @kimberly189 ?? ,

    We haven’t heard from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.

    All the best,
    Omar

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