WooCommerce Payfast Gateway

Give customers more flexibility and increase your bottom line with Payfast — one of South Africa’s most popular payment gateways.

v1.7.6WooCommerceUpdated 2026-04-06Added May 2, 201830k+ installs60% rating0% support resolved
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Errors
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Warnings
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Category Scores

Security82
Repo94
Performance100
Maintainability80

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Issues Details

138 issues found in latest scan

ERROR89
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch

Mismatched text domain. Expected 'woocommerce-payfast-gateway' but got 'woocommerce-gateway-payfast'.

WARNING30
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound

Global constants defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "PF_CURL".

WARNING4
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound

Global variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$active_plugin".

WARNING4
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNING3
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedClassFound

Classes declared by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "WC_Gateway_PayFast".

WARNING3
trademarked_term

The plugin name includes a restricted term. Your chosen plugin name - "WooCommerce Payfast Gateway" - contains the restricted term "woocommerce" which cannot be used within in your plugin name, unless your plugin name contains one of the allowed patterns: "for woocommerce", "with woocommerce", "using woocommerce", or "and woocommerce". The term must still not appear anywhere else in your name.

WARNING1
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound

load_plugin_textdomain() has been discouraged since WordPress version 4.6. When your plugin is hosted on WordPress.org, you no longer need to manually include this function call for translations under your plugin slug. WordPress will automatically load the translations for you as needed.

WARNING1
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound

Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "wc_payfast_privacy_eraser_subs_statuses".

WARNING1
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET['key']

ERROR1
missing_direct_file_access_protection

PHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;

ERROR1
plugin_header_no_license

Missing "License" in Plugin Header. Please update your Plugin Header with a valid GPLv2 (or later) compatible license.

Latest Snapshot

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138

Errors

91

Warnings

47

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First scan completed Jun 20, 2026

v1.7.6 · Plugin Check 2.0.0 · Model 2026.06-mvp-static-v2

Jun 20, 2026

v1.7.6

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Findings
138
Errors
91
Warnings
47
Plugin Check
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Model
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