It seems that the resolved earlier bug returned

It seems that this bug (Bug 8977) returned.

We have received already the second letter as below (must be in Russian, but we have Ukrainian):
OJS ver. 2.4.3.0

Система Open Journal Systems помітила незвичайну активність у функціонуванні модуля платежів PayPal журналу Russian Journal of Herpetology.
Може знадобитись подальше вивчення цього питання або ручне втручання.

Цей лист створений модулем PayPal системи Open Journal Systems.

Повна інформація про запит:
Array
(
[transaction_subject] =>
[payment_date] => 14:25:22 Sep 14, 2017 PDT
[txn_type] => web_accept
[last_name] => ***
[residence_country] => ***
[item_name] => ***
[payment_gross] => ***
[mc_currency] => ***
[business] => ***
[payment_type] => instant
[protection_eligibility] => Eligible
[verify_sign] =>
AfGhdiwjldC.sOZ9YP.akedLASMGAk.Vo95EGWOuMES.lBWkqOWz9.9C
[payer_status] => verified
[payer_email] => ***
[txn_id] => 6KN77172KT014464Y
[quantity] => 1
[receiver_email] => ***
[first_name] => ***
[payer_id] => ***
[receiver_id] => ***
[item_number] => 43
[payment_status] => Completed
[payment_fee] => ***
[mc_fee] => ***
[mc_gross] => ***
[custom] => ***
[charset] => UTF-8
[notify_version] => 3.8
[ipn_track_id] => ***
)

Додаткова інформація (якщо наявна):
Confirmation return:
CURL error: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Дані сервера:
Array
(
[CONTENT_LENGTH] => 757
[CONTENT_TYPE] => application/x-www-form-urlencoded
[DOCUMENT_ROOT] => ***/folium/folium.ru/www/rjh/
[GECOS] => folium.ru
[HOME] => ***/folium
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => /
[HTTP_CONNECTION] => close
[HTTP_CORRELATION_ID] => cf50332f3778f
[HTTP_HOST] => rjh.folium.ru
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => PayPal IPN ( https://www.paypal.com/ipn )
[HTTP_X_ACCEL_HOST] => ***
[HTTP_X_ACCEL_IP] => 173.0.81.1
[HTTP_X_ACLR_INTERNAL] => /ZACLR
[HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR_ORIG] => ***
[LD_PRELOAD] => /usr/lib/libthr.so:/usr/local/lib/libpwd_dbenv.so
[PATH] => /usr/bin:/bin
[PERLLIB] => ***/folium/perllib
[PROF_SRV] => 1
[REMOTE_ADDR] => 173.0.81.1
[REMOTE_PORT] => 0
[SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /folium/folium.ru/www/rjh/index.php
[SERVER_ADDR] => 62.113.86.15
[SERVER_ADMIN] => ***
[SERVER_NAME] => ***
[SERVER_PORT] => 2067
[SERVER_SIGNATURE] =>
[SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.3.29 mod_perl/1.31
[SHELL] => /usr/local/sbin/rtsh
[UNIQUE_ID] => ***
[USER] => ***
[GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1
[SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.0
[REQUEST_METHOD] => POST
[QUERY_STRING] =>
[REQUEST_URI] => /index.php/rjh/payment/plugin/Paypal/ipn
[SCRIPT_NAME] => /index.php
[PATH_INFO] => /rjh/payment/plugin/Paypal/ipn
[PATH_TRANSLATED] =>
/rjh/rjh/payment/plugin/Paypal/ipn
[PHP_SELF] => /index.php/rjh/payment/plugin/Paypal/ipn
[REQUEST_TIME] => 1505424330
[argv] => Array
(
)

[argc] => 0

)

The payment has not been completed. It’s status remained “Awaiting Online Payment”.

We will greatly appreciate any ideas. Any questions are welcome! We try to answer all.

Hi @slavash2305,

I would strongly suggest upgrading – OJS 2.4.3 was released almost 4 years ago.

It’s likely that you need to update your CURL and/or OpenSSL libraries; see e.g. php - How to solve curl ssl v3 alert handshake failure? - Stack Overflow.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team