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Email Verification for WooCommerce <= 1.8.1 — Authentication Bypass

85bd9922-3316-4fd0-b31e-c3ca5ab8a79dPublished · Updated

Action summary

Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce: Affected: ≤1.8.1Update to 1.8.2 or newer

Email Verification for WooCommerce Pro: Affected: ≤1.8.1Update to 1.8.2 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce emails-verification-for-woocommerce

  1. Affected≤ 1.8.1
  2. Patched in1.8.2

Update to 1.8.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.8.1. Version 1.8.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

Email Verification for WooCommerce Pro email-verification-for-woocommerce-pro

  1. Affected≤ 1.8.1
  2. Patched in1.8.2

Update to 1.8.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.8.1. Version 1.8.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.8.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Update to version 1.8.2, or a newer patched version
  3. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  4. Watch Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Michal Lipinski.

The Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass due to insufficient validation on the alg_wc_ev_activation_code value found in the verify() function which makes it possible for users to spoof email validation for any user, including administrators, that will auto-log them in as that user through wp_set_auth_cookie(). This affects versions up to, and including, 1.8.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as site administrators.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce

All 7
More vulnerabilities in Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High8.1Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to 'alg_wc_ev_verify_email' Parameter
≤3.3.0Update to 3.3.1
CVE-2026-104745
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
<3.2.6Update to 3.2.6
CVE-2026-14182
Medium6.5Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2.9.4Update to 2.9.5
CVE-2024-13525
High7.5Authentication Bypass via Shortcode
≤2.9.5Update to 2.9.6
CVE-2024-13528
High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
≤2.8.10Update to 2.9.0
CVE-2024-49305

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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