Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe

77 Quality Score

Active Installs

18/30

10,000 active installs is a modest footprint: real users, but a small community compared to GiveWP at 100,000 or WooCommerce at 7 million.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated within the last few weeks and is tested against WordPress 7.0, which is unusually current and a strong signal of active development.

User Rating

11/15

A 76 out of 100 from only 23 reviewers is middling: most users are satisfied, but the small sample size means the score could swing quickly with a few more votes.

Support Health

8/15

Only 2 support threads exist and both are resolved, which sounds good on paper but the volume is too low to draw meaningful conclusions about the developer's responsiveness under load.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatibility is excellent: it works on WordPress 3.0 and up and only requires PHP 5.4, so it will run on virtually any hosting environment still in use today.

Scores higher than 54% of indexed plugins

About

Add a PayPal or Stripe Donation Button to your website and start collecting donations today. No Coding Required. Official PayPal & Stripe Partner.

Active Installs 10k+

Rating ★★★½ 3.8/5

Last Updated 2026-08-22 12:05am GMT

Requires WordPress 3.1.0+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 5.4+

Security History

9 known vulnerabilities, all patched

1 High 8 Medium

Most recent: July 23, 2026

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Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe <= 1.5.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

July 23, 2026 Patched in ["1.5.6"] CVE-2026-65518

Accept Donations with PayPal <= 1.5.2 - Unauthenticated Open Redirect Medium

December 25, 2025 Patched in ["1.5.3"] CVE-2025-68602

Accept Donations with PayPal <= 1.4.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

May 7, 2025 Patched in ["1.5"] CVE-2025-47517

Accept Donations with PayPal & Stripe <= 1.4.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Medium

February 22, 2025 Patched in ["1.4.5"] CVE-2024-13728

Accept Donations with PayPal <= 1.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Page Medium

May 25, 2022 Patched in ["1.3.1"]

Accept Donations with PayPal <= 1.3.3 - Arbitrary Post Deletion via Cross-Site Request Forgery Medium

December 9, 2021 Patched in ["1.3.4"] CVE-2021-24989

Paypal Donation <= 1.3.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

October 18, 2021 Patched in ["1.3.2"] CVE-2021-24815

Paypal Donation <= 1.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

October 4, 2021 Patched in ["1.3.1"] CVE-2021-24570

Accept Donations with PayPal <= 1.3.0 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Post Deletion High

October 4, 2021 Patched in ["1.3.1"] CVE-2021-24572

What It Does

This plugin adds PayPal and Stripe donation buttons to a WordPress site without requiring any coding. Site owners configure a button through the settings panel, set an amount (fixed or open-ended), choose between PayPal or Stripe, and drop a shortcode into a page, post, or widget. It also ships with a few display styles and basic customization for the button label and currency.

Who It's For

It is a reasonable fit for small nonprofits, community groups, religious organizations, and personal causes that want to start accepting online donations quickly without installing a full fundraising platform. Sites with under 10,000 monthly visitors and simple needs (single campaign, one or two buttons, basic reporting) will likely get what they need here.

Who Should Skip It

If you run recurring giving programs, need donor management, tax receipts, goal thermometers, peer-to-peer fundraising, or any form of campaign analytics, this plugin is too thin for the job and you should look at GiveWP instead. Anyone already running WooCommerce for products or subscriptions will get more mileage from a WooCommerce-native PayPal or Stripe extension.

The Bottom Line

Accept Donations with PayPal and Stripe is a lightweight, well-maintained tool that delivers exactly what it promises: a simple donation button for PayPal or Stripe with zero coding. It is not a fundraising platform, and anyone with recurring donations, donor management, or campaign goals will outgrow it fast. Treat it as a starter button, not a long-term solution for a serious nonprofit operation.

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