Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce – Recover Lost Sales with Automated Emails < 2.1.0 - Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Privilege Escalation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.1.0
- Affected Version
< 2.1.0- CVSS
- 7.2High
- Weakness type
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
- CVE
CVE-2026-39470
At a glance
CVE-2026-39470 is a high-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in the Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.1.0. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Shop Manager level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.1.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2026, reported by Nguyen Ba Khanh.
Vulnerability Overview
The Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce – Recover Lost Sales with Automated Emails plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to 2.1.0 (exclusive). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level access and above, to escalate their privileges to that of an administrator.
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 interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Remediation
Update to version 2.1.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce 2.1.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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