CVE-2025-3876
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.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.44% probability · 37th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- cozyvision/sms alert order notifications
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.8.0/handler/forms/class-wplogin.php#L145Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.8.0/handler/forms/class-wplogin.php#L447Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3290478/Patch
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/sms-alert/#developersRelease Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1cf65f79-d386-4dd4-a360-b2f764dfaf19?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.