CVE-2026-11387
What it is
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. High risk of data exposure, data tampering, service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- ReservedThe CVE id was reserved by its CNA
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 2.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 9.8 CRITICAL (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 2.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-287 · Improper authentication
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 9.8
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-ultimatemember.php#L288
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-ultimatemember.php#L88
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-wpresetpassword.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-wpresetpassword.php#L130
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/forms/class-wpresetpassword.php#L68
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.5/handler/smsalert_form_handler.php#L91
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3587983%40sms-alert&new=3587983%40sms-alert&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c31906da-f2fd-40ac-86e0-3f1ed0409d0c?source=cve