# CVE-2024-12402: Auth bypass in TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce

> Unauthenticated attackers can change arbitrary user passwords, including administrators, leading to account takeover and privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mhjf-ch2g-f5c3

## What is CVE-2024-12402?

CVE-2024-12402 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in themescoder TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce, published on 7 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Themes Coder – Create Android & iOS Apps For Your Woocommerce Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.4. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password through the update_user_profile() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

Weakness: CWE-288 (Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12402?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-12402?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12402 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12402 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12402 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12402 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in themescoder TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce, published on 7 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: themescoder TC Ecommerce – Create Android & iOS Apps for WooCommerce. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12402/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12402/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12402
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12402
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12402

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12402/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.