CVE-2025-3876
SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce <= 3.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation via handleWpLoginCreateUserAction Function
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 18 days later
· 18 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months 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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
References (5)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1cf65f79-d386-4dd4-a360-b2f764dfaf19?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.8.0/handler/forms/class-wplogin.php#L447 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.8.0/handler/forms/class-wplogin.php#L145 (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/sms-alert/#developers (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3290478/ (opens in a new tab)
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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