PHP errors and crashes from the PayPal plugin
Plugin warnings, PHP fatal errors and crashes after updates or PHP upgrades take the site down or flood error logs.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
8 public reports · first reported 18 March 2016 · last reported 30 January 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners running this WordPress plugin with Contact Form 7 report fatal errors, crashes and steady streams of warnings in their PHP logs. Some sites went down for days after an update. Others hit errors after upgrading to PHP 8.3, from deprecated code, a mistyped hook registration, session start warnings sent after headers, and undefined array keys. One owner saw array values printed in outgoing emails instead of the entered answers. Several owners found the plugin broke their JavaScript or made the admin unusable. There is room for a service that tests form plugins against new PHP and WordPress versions and reports problems before owners update.
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Products affected
Accept PayPal Payments using Contact Form 7.
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Who has this problem
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