CVE-2023-2781

HIGH

User Email Verification for WooCommerce <= 3.5.0 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Email Verification Token

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The User Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass via authenticate_user_by_email in versions up to, and including, 3.5.0. This is due to a random token generation weakness in the resend_verification_email function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to impersonate users and trigger an email address verification for arbitrary accounts, including administrative accounts, and automatically be logged in as that user, including any site administrators. This requires the Allow Automatic Login After Successful Verification setting to be enabled, which it is not by default.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0117
EPSS Percentile 63.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-288 CWE-306
Status published
Products (2)
sandeepsoni214/User Email Verification for WooCommerce < 3.5.0
wisetr/user_email_verification_for_woocommerce < 3.5.0
Published Jun 03, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026