YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Plugin up to 4.38.0 on WordPress race condition

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Plugin up to 4.38.0. This affects an unknown part. Performing a manipulation results in race condition. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-88814. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Plugin up to 4.38.0. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards WordPress plugin before 4.38.1 does not lock or atomically update a gift card's balance when it is redeemed at checkout, allowing an attacker who holds a gift card code to spend more than its funded value by submitting multiple checkouts for the same code at the same time.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-88814 since 09/10/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 4.38.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• YITH

Name

• WooCommerce Gift Cards Plugin

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.19
• 4.20
• 4.21
• 4.22
• 4.23
• 4.24
• 4.25
• 4.26
• 4.27
• 4.28
• 4.29
• 4.30
• 4.31
• 4.32
• 4.33
• 4.34
• 4.35
• 4.36
• 4.37
• 4.38.0

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