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Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce

by Mercado Pago · eCommerce

Offer to your clients the best experience in e-Commerce by using Mercado Pago as your payment method.

How scoring works →
90 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 100/100

90 health vs 68 average across 5,561 eCommerce plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

92 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 78/100
Listing tuning 84/100
Support resolution 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+8% vs prior 30d
2.4KDownloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

102.4K

now · peak 242.9K

104.9K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Mercado Pago payment · #375 you WooCommerce PayPal P · #81 WPML Multilingual & · #322 TI WooCommerce Wishl · #395

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.9Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

38

releases in the last 12 months

1mo ago

latest release · v8.9.0

80

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

8.9.0 · 1mo ago8.8.1 · 2mo ago8.8.0 · 2mo ago8.7.23 · 3mo ago8.7.24 · 3mo ago8.7.22 · 3mo ago8.7.21 · 4mo ago8.7.20 · 4mo ago8.7.19 · 4mo ago8.7.18 · 4mo ago8.7.17 · 5mo ago8.7.16 · 5mo ago8.7.15 · 5mo ago8.7.14 · 6mo ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 22% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v8.7 42%
v8.9 22%
v8.8 13%
Older / other versions 23%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
100K–200K ≈150K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-03-13 · 1,443 observations

100KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price.

Details

Version
8.9.3
Last updated
yesterday
Added
2012-11-07 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
6.3
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.4

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. elmovimiento
    2mo ago

    LLEVO MESES SIN QUE ARREGLEN EL TEMA DE LOS PEDIDOS NO QUEDAN COMPLETADOS! TENGO QUE VERLO MANUALMENTE. This topic was modified 1 month ago by elmovimiento.

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  2. Miguel-martinez
    3mo ago

    No aprueba los pedidos de forma automática; tuve que crear mi propio plugin para ello.Muy flojo la verdad.

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  3. marcelino1fernandes
    3mo ago

    Obrigado pela atualização

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  4. Laguna Sites
    4mo ago

    O plugin do Mercado Pago consegue transformar algo que deveria ser simples em uma experiência extremamente frustrante. A configuração é confusa, cheia de etapas pouco intuitivas e com instruções que muitas vezes não são claras ou não batem com o que aparece na prática. Mesmo quando tudo parece estar certo, surgem erros sem explicação direta, o que obriga o usuário a perder horas tentando entender o que está acontecendo. Além disso, a integração não transmite confiança. Há inconsistências entre ambiente de teste e produção, opções mal explicadas e uma dependência de detalhes técnicos que não deveriam ser necessários para quem só quer receber pagamentos. A documentação, em vez de ajudar, frequentemente complica ainda mais, deixando lacunas importantes e gerando mais dúvidas do que respostas. O resultado é um processo desgastante, que tira tempo, energia e paciência. Em vez de facilitar a vida de quem vende, o plugin acaba se tornando um obstáculo, criando uma sensação constante de incerteza e retrabalho. Para quem busca praticidade e estabilidade, a experiência com esse plugin está longe do ideal.

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  5. carlesst
    5mo ago

    Este plugin actúa técnicamente como un tracker invasivo disfrazado de pasarela de pago; tras su instalación, inyecta scripts de seguimiento y herramientas de huella digital (fingerprinting) que monitorean el comportamiento del usuario en el checkout. Resulta una vulnerabilidad estratégica inaceptable el hecho de ceder datos transaccionales críticos directamente al ecosistema de Mercado Libre, permitiendo que un competidor directo perfile los hábitos de compra de tus clientes para luego re-impactarlos en su marketplace.

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  6. francozapata
    5mo ago

    Funciona genial, sin embargo el procedimiento de testeo me pareció largo. Me pareció más fácil cargar un producto a 10 pesos y probarlo en producción.

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  7. mmagnani
    5mo ago

    Melhor plugin de pagamento brasileiro que já vi.Facilita muito a integração com o serviço e funciona perfeitamente.Menção especial à possibilidade de não exibir a opção de pagar com a conta ou cartão MP, deixando o checkout verdadeiramente transparente, nada intrusivo.Parabéns à equipe!

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  8. socialmediantrl
    7mo ago

    No tengo ningún problema con el plugin.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

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

  1. 2026-08-05 CVE-2026-28180 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 8.9.0 Patched in 8.9.1
  2. 2026-05-05 CVE-2026-3208 Missing Authorization Affects <= 8.7.11 Patched in 8.7.12
  3. 2024-07-19 CVE-2024-3934 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Affects 7.3.0 - 7.6.1 Patched in 7.6.2
  4. 2023-02-06 CVE-2022-45068 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 6.3.1 Patched in 6.4.0
  5. 2023-01-23 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 6.6.0 Patched in 6.7.0

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 21 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Dutch 100%
Dutch (Formal) 100%
Spanish (Chile) 80%
Spanish (Mexico) 62%
Spanish (Spain) 62%
Spanish (Colombia) 45%
Portuguese (Brazil) 37%
Swedish 37%
Spanish (Peru) 36%
Spanish (Uruguay) 36%
Spanish (Ecuador) 35%
Spanish (Venezuela) 35%
Spanish (Argentina) 29%
English (UK) 17%
Russian 12%
Ukrainian 7%
Dutch (Belgium) 2%
German 2%
English (Australia) 1%
English (Canada) 1%
English (New Zealand) 1%

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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