SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery <= 3.9.4 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2026-54803Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.9.4Update to 3.9.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.3
- CVSS
- 6.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
- Weakness
- CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
- Required access
- Unknown
- 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≤ 3.9.4
- Patched in3.9.5
Update to 3.9.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.9.4. Version 3.9.5 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.
What to do
- Update to version 3.9.5, 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 Peng Zhou.
The SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 3.9.4. This is due to missing validation that the phone number supplied at login matches the phone number that was OTP-verified in the session, allowing session token reuse across arbitrary accounts. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to log in as any user, including administrators, without knowing the account's password by supplying an arbitrary username after completing OTP verification for a different phone number.
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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| 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 |
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- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary Account Takeover
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- 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.
