Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce <= 5.15.1 - Authentication Bypass

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVE CVE-2023-2986
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published June 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher István Márton, Ayan Saha
Description

The Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 5.14.2. This is due to insufficient encryption on the user being supplied during the abandoned cart link decode through the plugin. This allows unauthenticated attackers to log in as users who have abandoned the cart, who are typically customers. Further security hardening was introduced in version 5.15.1 that ensures sites are no longer vulnerable through historical check-out links, and additional hardening was introduced in version 5.15.2 that ensured null key values wouldn't permit the authentication bypass.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug woocommerce-abandoned-cart (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.15.1
Patched Version
  • 5.15.2
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