CVE-2026-11387
SMS Alert <= 3.9.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Password Reset
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.5. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like reset the password of any user account, including administrators, and gain full access to those accounts. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account. This is only vulnerable on sites with OTP verification for password resets enabled, and where the administrator (or other user) has set a phone number for OTP verification.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 26 days later
· 26 days later
Published
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 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
References (8)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c31906da-f2fd-40ac-86e0-3f1ed0409d0c?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-ultimatemember.php#L288 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-wpresetpassword.php#L116 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-wpresetpassword.php#L68 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-ultimatemember.php#L88 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-wpresetpassword.php#L130 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/smsalert_form_handler.php#L91 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3587983%40sms-alert&new=3587983%40sms-alert&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (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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