# CVE-2026-84044: Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering payment verification bypass

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-84044-restaurant-menu-and-food-ordering-payment-verification-bypass  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-09-04. Updated: 2026-09-26  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-84044 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.3 · Published 2026-09-04

The Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering WordPress plugin used to process food orders and payments does not properly verify PayPal payment notifications. This allows attackers to forge a payment confirmation and mark orders as paid without actually paying, enabling free meals and direct revenue loss for restaurant operators using the plugin.

Vendors: [MotoPress](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/motopress).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-84044 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-84044 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-84044?** Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 4 September 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** MotoPress Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering before 2.4.12.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-84044?** A patch was published on 2026-09-04: Fixed in version 2.4.12 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2026-84044 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a web application.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-84044?** Check whether you run MotoPress Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Technical details

The plugin implements a PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) listener that fails to verify that incoming payment notifications genuinely originate from PayPal's servers. Specifically, the vulnerable component does not validate the notification by performing the required POST-back verification step that PayPal requires. An unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of an order ID, purchase key, order total, and merchant PayPal email (all publicly visible on the storefront) can craft and send a forged IPN notification to the listener endpoint to mark any pending order as completed without making payment. The attack requires the PayPal Standard gateway to be enabled but no authentication or CSRF tokens. The vulnerability was fixed in version 2.4.12.

## Affected products

- MotoPress Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering before 2.4.12

## Timeline

- 2026-09-02: disclosed
- 2026-09-04: patched: Fixed in version 2.4.12

## References

- [https://wordpress.org/plugins](https://wordpress.org/plugins)
- [https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/861a7030-f85c-4452-8eeb-68a3407f6815/](https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/861a7030-f85c-4452-8eeb-68a3407f6815/)