PayPal buttons break after updates
PayPal buttons and forms show error messages or stop loading user data after plugin updates or PayPal certificate changes.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 11 May 2024 · last reported 8 August 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who sell memberships through PayPal buttons and forms report that the buttons show a generic error, and that a recent release stopped the form from loading the logged in user's details.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.