WordPress security changelog
HIGH CVE-2024-4185 Deferred

Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass

Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.

CVE / CNA score 8.1 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce
Plugin slug
emails-verification-for-woocommerce
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Apr 30, 2024
Weakness
CWE-330 — Use of Insufficiently Random Values

This CVE was published Apr 30, 2024 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

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.

Source record

Technical description

The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Email Verification and Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.4 via the use of insufficiently random activation code. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the email verification, and if both the "Login the user automatically after the account is verified" and "Verify account for current users" options are checked, then it potentially makes it possible for attackers to bypass authentication for other users.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Primary and upstream sources