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Cart Abandonment Recovery EUVDEUVD-2026-100869

| CVE-2026-96900 MEDIUM
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639)
2026-10-14 WPScan GHSA-2rr9-5p4c-w9r4
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: WPScan
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Harvest or guess customer email
  2. Delivery
    Send crafted unauthenticated request with victim email
  3. Exploit
    Bypass missing ownership check (IDOR)
  4. Execution
    Delete or overwrite abandoned-cart record
  5. Impact
    Corrupt/destroy stored customer cart data

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires only that the attacker knows (or can guess/harvest) the victim customer's email address, which the plugin uses as the key to select an abandoned-cart record without verifying ownership. No authentication is required (PR:N) and no user interaction is needed (UI:N), and it works against the default behavior of affected versions (before 2.1.4) because the ownership check is simply missing. LIMITING FACTORS: the attacker must target a specific known email per record (not a blind mass-wipe without an email list), impact is confined to abandoned-cart data (no access to passwords, orders, or payment data - C:N), and installing 2.1.4 or later fully remediates by enforcing ownership verification.

Impact

This is a genuine but modest-severity issue, not a top-tier emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 5.3 MEDIUM) describes a remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity attack with LOW integrity impact and NO confidentiality or availability impact - consistent with the CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key / IDOR) classification where an attacker manipulates another user's abandoned-cart record. The signals are mostly aligned and point to limited real-world urgency: EPSS is very low (0.17%, 5th percentile), the SSVC framework records Exploitation as 'none' (no observed active exploitation), and the vulnerability is NOT on the CISA KEV list. However, two signals raise the floor on attention: a public exploit exists (WPScan), and SSVC marks the issue as Automatable: yes with Technical Impact: partial, meaning the attack can be scripted at scale against known customer emails. Net: a credible, easily-automatable tampering/data-destruction flaw against a specific class of records, but with no confidentiality exposure and no confirmed exploitation in the wild - this warrants timely patching (update to 2.1.4) rather than crisis response. One caveat to verify: the input lists a 'Authentication Bypass' tag, but the underlying weakness is an authorization/ownership-verification failure (IDOR), not an authentication bypass - do not over-rate this as a login bypass.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who knows a target customer's email address (easily guessed, harvested, or scraped) sends a crafted unauthenticated request to the plugin endpoint that selects an abandoned-cart record by email, without any ownership verification. Because the plugin does not confirm the requester owns that email, the attacker can delete or overwrite the victim's stored abandoned-cart data. A publicly available exploit (published by WPScan) exists, and SSVC rates the attack as automatable, so it can be run in bulk against lists of customer emails.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
Patch available 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026

Unauthenticated remote attackers can delete or overwrite stored abandoned-cart records in the WordPress plugin Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce (all versions before 2.1.4) by supplying a customer's email address, which the plugin uses as the record key without verifying that the requester owns that address (CWE-639, CVSS 5.3). Exploitation requires only a known or guessable email per target record, so the attacker cannot mass-wipe blindly without an email list, and the impact is confined to abandoned-cart data - no passwords, orders, or payment details are exposed given C:N/I:L and SSVC technical impact of partial. No confirmed active exploitation has been reported (not in CISA KEV), but publicly available exploit code exists per WPScan and EPSS is 0.17% (5th percentile), indicating a genuine yet low real-world risk that is fully resolved by upgrading to 2.1.4.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: 2.1.4 - update Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce to 2.1.4 or later, which enforces ownership verification before a record keyed by email can be deleted or overwritten; this is the only complete fix and should be applied via the WordPress plugin updater or by replacing the plugin directory. If the update cannot be deployed immediately, the practical compensating controls are to temporarily deactivate the plugin (trade-off: all abandoned-cart capture and recovery emails stop, directly costing recovery revenue) or to block the plugin's public abandoned-cart AJAX/REST action at a WAF, reverse proxy, or security plugin rule (trade-off: legitimate storefront-side cart capture and customer-initiated recovery links that share the same endpoints will also break, so the rule set must be tested against live cart flows). Because exploitation only requires knowing a customer email and the CVSS vector is PR:N/UI:N, restricting access by IP or role is not a viable workaround for a public storefront, and monitoring plugin logs for anomalous bulk delete/overwrite operations keyed to customer emails can only detect, not prevent, abuse. There is no confirmed active exploitation (not listed in CISA KEV), but public exploit code exists via the WPScan reference above, so treat patching as routine-but-prompt rather than emergency. Further vendor and vulnerability details are documented at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/67918de2-afc0-468d-8a66-290dc60fe8ec/ and https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96900.

Affected VersionsENISA

Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce 0 <2.1.4

Affected Packages

euvd cart_abandonment_recovery_for_woocommerce fix: 2.1.4

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected component is a WordPress plugin that extends WooCommerce by persisting captured abandoned-cart records - typically a custom database table row containing the shopper's email address, cart contents, and recovery metadata - and exposing public (unauthenticated) AJAX/REST handlers used to capture, restore, or clean up those records. The vulnerability class is CWE-639, Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (object-level IDOR): the record selector is a client-supplied value (the customer email) and the pre-2.1.4 code performs the delete or overwrite operation on that key without checking that the caller is entitled to it. Because the email is both the identifier and the attacker-controlled input, any party who knows a victim's address can address the victim's row directly. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N confirms that the flaw is remotely reachable, requires no authentication and no user interaction, affects only the vulnerable component, gives no confidentiality loss, and yields a limited integrity impact (cart data modification rather than a full site compromise or data theft). The CPE cpe:2.3:a:unknown:cart_abandonment_recovery_for_woocommerce:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* reflects that NVD parsed the WPScan-reported plugin metadata under an unspecified vendor, and the affected-version data from ENISA EUVD scopes the flaw to releases 0 through 2.1.4 exclusive.

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Severity by source

Vendor (WPScan) PRIMARY 5.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.3 MEDIUM

Remote unauthenticated request with no UI (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); only integrity of another user's cart record is affected (I:L), with no data disclosure (C:N) and impact scoped to a single record type (A:N).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).

CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
CVSS changed
Oct 14, 2026 - 14:22 NVD
5.3 (None) 5.3 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
Oct 14, 2026 - 08:16 EUVD
CVE Published
Oct 14, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
MEDIUM 5.3
CVE Published
Oct 14, 2026 - 06:00 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

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.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 95% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular WooCommerce abandoned-cart plugin, common but not universal on stores
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
Yes
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

46
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +26
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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