WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Plugin up to 2.1.x on WordPress improper authentication

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Plugin up to 2.1.x. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-96901. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Plugin up to 2.1.x. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.2.0 does not verify the integrity of its cart-recovery token before acting on it and still accepts an unsigned legacy token format, allowing unauthenticated attackers who know a victim's cart session identifier to modify that victim's abandoned-cart record, for example unsubscribing them from recovery emails or applying an arbitrary coupon to their restored cart.

The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-96901 since 09/23/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.2.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.0

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Improper authentication
CWE: CWE-287
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce Plugin 2.2.0

Timelineinfo

09/23/2026 CVE reserved
10/21/2026 +28 days Advisory disclosed
10/21/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/21/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-96901 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-96901
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-424628

Entryinfo

Created: 10/21/2026 08:41
Changes: 10/21/2026 08:41 (55)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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