SSL & PayPal for Marketpress

My client, for whom I installed the Marketpress plugin for the Pillarsofsteel.org website, received this email from Paypal:

We’re contacting our merchants with some important information in response to an industry-wide security upgrade which is not unique to PayPal. This change involves upgrading Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates over the course of 2015 and 2016.

Because these changes are technical in nature, we advise that you consult with your partner, website vendor, or individuals responsible for your PayPal integration. They will be able to identify what, if any, changes are needed. If you do not have a technology team, we recommend you find one, and we can work with them to ensure you continue to process payments through your current integration with PayPal.

Full technical details can be found in our Merchant Security System Upgrade Guide. In addition, our 2015-2016 SSL Certificate Change microsite contains a schedule of our service upgrade plan.

Questions can be directed to our Merchant Technical Services team on our Technical Support website. Click here for more information.

Thanks for your patience as we continue to improve our services.

His site is set up so that the ecommerce transaction actually takes place on Paypal’s website. Can you tell me if his site will be affected by this?

  • Vaughan
    • Ex Staff

    Hi Mike,

    Hope you’re well?

    This should be fine, we already made changes in our PP gateway plugins for this, the only other concern is with your clients webhost. If they updated their SSL software towards the end of last year due to the heartbleed exploit that was rampant then he’ll be fine, but he’d need to check with his webhost to be sure of that, if they updated the webserver to fix the SSL exploits already, then you’ll have nothing to do :slight_smile:

    Hope this helps