Vulnerability · Published May 10, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2025-3876SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce <= 3.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via handleWpLoginCreateUserAction Function

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity missing authorization in SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery from cozyvision1. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
cozyvision1	SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery	0 – through 3.8.1

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Official description

Affected products (as reported)

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