Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce <= 5.15.1 — Authentication Bypass
CVE-2023-2986Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.15.1Update to 5.15.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce woocommerce-abandoned-cart
- Affected≤ 5.15.1
- Patched in5.15.2
Update to 5.15.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.15.1. Version 5.15.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 5.15.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton, Ayan Saha.
The Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 5.14.2. This is due to insufficient encryption on the user being supplied during the abandoned cart link decode through the plugin. This allows unauthenticated attackers to log in as users who have abandoned the cart, who are typically customers. Further security hardening was introduced in version 5.15.1 that ensures sites are no longer vulnerable through historical check-out links, and additional hardening was introduced in version 5.15.2 that ensured null key values wouldn't permit the authentication bypass.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium4.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤6.8.0Update to 6.8.1 | CVE-2026-57637 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Weak Recovery Link ≤6.8.1Update to 6.8.2 | CVE-2026-12585 | |
| Medium5.3 | Cross-Site Request Forgery ≤5.16.1Update to 5.16.2 | — | |
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- Medium4.4Authenticated (Shop manager+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.8.0Update to 6.8.1
- Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤6.8.0Update to 6.8.1
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Weak Recovery Link
≤6.8.1Update to 6.8.2
- Medium5.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤5.16.1Update to 5.16.2
- Medium5.4Missing Authorization via multiple AJAX functions
≤5.16.1Update to 5.16.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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