CVE-2026-11387
Description
The SMS Alert โ 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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
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
CWEs
CWE-287
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.