CVE-2020-36696
Product Input Fields for WooCommerce <= 1.2.6 - Missing Authorization
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Product Input Fields for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the handle_downloads() function in versions up to, and including, 1.2.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download files from the vulnerable service.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
tychesoftwares · Product Input Fields for WooCommerce
- affected ≤ 1.2.6
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01e41573-9329-48e1-9191-e8e1532f7afc?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://blog.nintechnet.com/high-severity-vulnerability-fixed-in-product-input-fields-for-woocommerce/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/15f345e6-fc53-4bac-bc5a-de898181ea74 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2349889%40product-input-fields-for-woocommerce&new=2349889%40product-input-fields-for-woocommerce&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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