SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce <= 3.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via handleWpLoginCreateUserAction Function

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-3876
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 9, 2025
Last Updated May 10, 2025
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

The SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to insufficient user OTP validation in the handleWpLoginCreateUserAction() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to impersonate any account by supplying its username or email and elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sms-alert (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.8.1
Patched Version
  • 3.8.2
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