Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires at least contributor-level access. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce
- Plugin slug
emails-verification-for-woocommerce- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 12, 2025
This CVE was published Feb 12, 2025 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.5. This is due to the presence of a shortcode that will generate a confirmation link with a placeholder email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to generate a verification link for any unverified user and log into the account. The 'Fine tune placement' option must be enabled in the plugin settings in order to exploit the vulnerability.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H