Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal

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1. ★★★★★ Dong Ngo

   1.6y ago

   I’ve used this plugin for a couple of years, and it has proven to be the most reliable. So far, there has never been any issue—it just works. The setup is simple enough. It’s a valuable plugin. I hope it’s maintained.

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2. ★★★★★ jakdak

   1.7y ago

   The plugin is serving its purpose well. It has solved the payment/subscription pretty well on my site – after trying out a couple of plugs here and there. The configuration is also not complex at all. Then, I also like the current Paypal integration of possible payment even without a Paypal account. This literally makes it a multi-payment integration. Then the multilingual feature is another plus. My only question to the developer/support team: Would it be possible to dynamically fetch variable values: subscription & price from an external database (querried from an external app)? Where I don’t have to pre-configure buttons (shortcodes) – but rather have the price and package dynamically fetched when checking out. I’ll be more than glad to get a response on this.

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3. ★★★★★ mirob

   7.1y ago

   I managed to set up the plug-in just fine and add buttons to my side. But whenever I click the buttons I get the following error-message: Things don’t appear to be working at the moment. Please try again later.

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4. ★★★★★ havasuscannerfeed

   7.6y ago

   This program works great. I just got done providing free phone support for another WP webmaster, and we want to share this great tidbit of information for anyone just installing this plugin: If you are using the new WP Editor, please download “CLASSIC EDITOR” to remove the new blocks-style editor so that you can see the buttons that this plugin uses to insert shortcode on your pages.

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5. ★★★★★ enterpim

   7.6y ago

   UPDATE TO EVERYONE: If you are using the newest WordPress page editor, it may be a problem as described in this thread. The solution (Thanks, Robert!) was to install the plugin called “Classic Editor”. This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by enterpim. This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by enterpim. This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by enterpim.

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6. ★★★★★ enterpin

   8.0y ago

   You have to buy the Pro version if you want to customize the email the user gets. What they do get is a receipt from PayPal that they may or may not associate with signup to my site. I don’t know if I want to spend $60 just for use of that feature. We’ll see how it goes. This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by enterpin. This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by enterpin. This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by enterpin. Reason: Developer replied This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by enterpin.

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7. ★★★★★ shoelace1291

   8.2y ago

   The IPN listener created 9 payments for every user that subscribes. You have to pay to have an out-of-box feature that doesn’t work fixed. If I could give 0 stars I would.

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8. ★★★★★ jim21slim

   8.6y ago

   Don’t waste your time there’s better plugins than this one This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by jim21slim.

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4 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.3 Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal <= 1.1.7 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2025-11-28 CVE-2025-66107 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.1.7 Patched in 1.1.8
2. Medium · 5.3 Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal <= 1.1.7 - Unauthenticated Fake Payment Creation ↗
   2025-11-21 CVE-2025-12752 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affects <= 1.1.7 Patched in 1.1.8
3. Medium · 4.3 Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal <= 1.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary Post Deletion ↗
   2025-02-25 CVE-2024-13560 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.1.6 Patched in 1.1.7
4. Medium · 6.1 Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal <= 1.1.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-05-25 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.1.5 Patched in 1.1.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-23 1K+ → 900+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress 100K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• User Registration & Membership – Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder 50K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Simple Membership 40K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Accept PayPal & Stripe with Subscriptions for WooCommerce 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• codoc 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B

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Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal: 900+ active installs, 3.9★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/subscriptions-memberships-for-paypal