{"id":"CVE-2026-104745","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-104745","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:36:31.347Z","title":"The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via the `alg_wc_ev_verify_email` parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.3.0.","description":"The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via the `alg_wc_ev_verify_email` parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.3.0. The vulnerability exists because `alg_wc_ev_generate_user_code()` generates the per-user activation secret using `wp_rand(100)` when the plugin's 'Encoding method' is set to 'hashids', producing only ~101 possible values (~7 bits of entropy); the resulting token is a reversible Hashids encoding with no cryptographic MAC, and the unauthenticated `verify()` handler — hooked to `init` at `PHP_INT_MAX` with no nonce check and no rate limiting — accepts and acts on the attacker-controlled `?alg_wc_ev_verify_email=` GET parameter directly. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to gain authentication as any unverified WordPress account, including administrator-level accounts, by brute-forcing the trivially small activation code space via a forged verification URL. Exploitation requires that the 'Encoding method' setting be changed to 'hashids' (non-default), that the attacker recover or brute-force the Hashids salt (which defaults to an `md5(time())` value set at first initialization), and that the target account's email address remain unverified.","published":"2026-10-16T04:18:22.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-16T15:17:04.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00684,"percentile":0.52374,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-16","score":0.00518,"percentile":0.42766}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.68%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-16T04:18:22.000Z","detail":{"score":"8.1","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-16T04:18:21.607Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.1)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emails-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/3.3.0/includes/alg-wc-ev-functions.php#L331","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emails-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/3.3.0/includes/class-alg-wc-ev-core.php#L1258","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emails-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/3.3.0/includes/class-alg-wc-ev-core.php#L498","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emails-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/3.3.0/includes/class-alg-wc-ev-core.php#L784","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3744623%40emails-verification-for-woocommerce&new=3744623%40emails-verification-for-woocommerce","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6df7b3ed-a1e3-4df9-828e-95530661e27a?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104745","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}