Automation Web Platform <= 4.8.6 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via 'otp_transient' Token Disclosure
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.8.7
- Affected Plugin
- Wawp Country Code & Chat Widget for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
<= 4.8.6- CVSS
- 9.8Critical
- Weakness type
- CWE-640 · Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
- CVE
CVE-2026-77264
At a glance
CVE-2026-77264 is a critical-severity Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password vulnerability in the Wawp Country Code & Chat Widget for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.8.6. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.8.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2026, reported by RIA Labs.
Vulnerability Overview
The Automation Web Platform – Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in versions up to, and including, 4.8.6. This is due to the handle_email_otp_return() function returning the secret magic login token in the response to a publicly accessible OTP request, rather than only delivering it to the user's email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user on the site, including administrators, if they know that user's email address.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Wawp Country Code & Chat Widget for WooCommerce <= 4.8.6 carries this weakness at handle_email_otp_return(), and reaching it takes no account at all. A weak password recovery mechanism means the path that lets someone back into an account without their password is easier to complete than the password itself.
An attacker takes over an account through the recovery flow without ever seeing the password, and on an administrator account that is full control of the site. For Wawp Country Code & Chat Widget for WooCommerce the fix is 4.8.7: builds <= 4.8.6 are affected, anything from 4.8.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.8.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Wawp Country Code & Chat Widget for WooCommerce 4.8.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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