SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce
- Plugin slug
sms-alert- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 10, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published May 10, 2025 and is one of 11 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to insufficient user OTP validation in the handleWpLoginCreateUserAction() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to impersonate any account by supplying its username or email and elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H