# CVE-2026-96900: Missing authorization in Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce

> Unauthenticated attackers can delete or modify abandoned cart records for any customer by exploiting missing ownership checks in the WooCommerce plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 14 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2rr9-5p4c-w9r4

## What is CVE-2026-96900?

CVE-2026-96900 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce, published on 14 Oct 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce  WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 does not verify ownership of the email address used to select an abandoned-cart record before deleting or overwriting it, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know a customer's email to destroy or tamper with that customer's stored abandoned-cart data.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-96900?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-96900?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-96900 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-96900 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-96900 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-96900 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-96900 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Unknown Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce, published on 14 Oct 2026. 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-2026-96900 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Cart Abandonment Recovery 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-2026-96900/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-96900/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96900
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96900
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96900

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-96900/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.