SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce <= 3.7.9 — Unauthenticated Account Takeover/Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-13553Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.7.9Update to 3.8.0 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?
SMS Alert – SMS Notifications & OTP Login, COD Verification, Abandoned Cart Recovery sms-alert
- Affected≤ 3.7.9
- Patched in3.8.0
Update to 3.8.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.7.9. Version 3.8.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under SMS Alert – SMS Notifications & OTP Login, COD Verification, Abandoned Cart Recovery.
- 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 3.8.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch SMS Alert – SMS Notifications & OTP Login, COD Verification, Abandoned Cart Recovery to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Lucio Sá.
The SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.7.9. This is due to the plugin using the Host header to determine if the plugin is in a playground environment. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to spoof the Host header to make the OTP code "1234" and authenticate as any user, including administrators.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 30| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.3 | Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation ≤4.0.2Update to 4.0.3 | CVE-2026-116386 | |
| Medium4.3 | Missing Authorization ≤4.0.1Update to 4.0.2 | CVE-2026-110882 | |
| Low2.7 | 4.0.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Information Exposure 3.6.4 – 4.0.0Update to 4.0.1 | CVE-2026-94258 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary Account Takeover ≤4.0.0Update to 4.0.1 | CVE-2026-94256 | |
| High7.3 | 4.0.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation 3.9.6 – 4.0.0Update to 4.0.1 | CVE-2026-94257 |
- High7.3Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
≤4.0.2Update to 4.0.3
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
≤4.0.1Update to 4.0.2
- Low2.74.0.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Information Exposure
3.6.4 – 4.0.0Update to 4.0.1
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary Account Takeover
≤4.0.0Update to 4.0.1
- High7.34.0.0 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
3.9.6 – 4.0.0Update to 4.0.1
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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