Security for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.0.16 on WordPress authorization

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A vulnerability was found in Security for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.0.16. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. This manipulation causes authorization. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-123702. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Security for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.0.16 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. As an impact it is known to affect integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Security For WooCommerce WordPress plugin through 1.0.16 does not check that the requester is authorised before regenerating the secret keys and salts in the site's configuration file, allowing unauthenticated users to log out every user and, on servers that cannot reach the WordPress.org API, corrupt the configuration file and take the whole site offline.

The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-123702 since 11/06/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/11/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Security for WooCommerce Plugin

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.0.16

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