# CVE-2024-13528: Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce <= 2.9.5 - Authentication Bypass via Shortcode

> Authenticated attackers can bypass email verification to take over accounts if the fine tune placement option is enabled.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-ffhx-9g94-w22w

## What is CVE-2024-13528?

CVE-2024-13528 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in wpcodefactory Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce, published on 12 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.5. This is due to the presence of a shortcode that will generate a confirmation link with a placeholder email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to generate a verification link for any unverified user and log into the account. The 'Fine tune placement' option must be enabled in the plugin settings in order to exploit the vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-287 (Improper Authentication)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13528?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpfactory Customer Email Verification for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-13528?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13528 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-13528 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13528 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in wpcodefactory Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce

- [CVE-2024-13525](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13525/): Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce <= 2.9.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13528 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-13528 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in wpcodefactory Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce, published on 12 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13528 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: wpcodefactory Customer Email Verification 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-2024-13528/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13528/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13528
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13528
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13528

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13528/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.