CVE-2024-4185 Auth bypass in Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce
Unauthenticated attackers can bypass email verification and potentially user authentication due to insufficient randomness in activation codes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-4185?
CVE-2024-4185 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in wpcodefactory Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce, published on 30 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Email Verification and Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.4 via the use of insufficiently random activation code. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the email verification, and if both the "Login the user automatically after the account is verified" and "Verify account for current users" options are checked, then it potentially makes it possible for attackers to bypass authentication for other users.
Weakness: CWE-330
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4185?
How do I fix CVE-2024-4185?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4185 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2024-4185 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4185 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7fhm-gx9f-8c93.