CVE-2023-2986 CRITICAL

CVE-2023-2986: Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce <= 5.15.1 - Authentication Bypass

Vendor Tychesoftwares
Product Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce
Weakness CWE-288
Published June 8, 2023
Last update April 8, 2026

CVSS base score

9.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 5.14.2. This is due to insufficient encryption on the user being supplied during the abandoned cart link decode through the plugin. This allows unauthenticated attackers to log in as users who have abandoned the cart, who are typically customers. Further security hardening was introduced in version 5.15.1 that ensures sites are no longer vulnerable through historical check-out links, and additional hardening was introduced in version 5.15.2 that ensured null key values wouldn't permit the authentication bypass.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 8, 2023 CVE published
April 8, 2026 Record updated