Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce – Recover Lost Sales with Automated Emails < 2.2.0 - Unauthenticated Abandoned Cart Takeover
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.2.0
- Affected Version
< 2.2.0- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-285 · Improper Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2026-96901
At a glance
CVE-2026-96901 is a medium-severity Improper Authorization vulnerability in the Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.2.0. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.2.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2026, reported by Usama Arshad.
Vulnerability Overview
The Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce – Recover Lost Sales with Automated Emails plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to abandoned cart takeover due to an unsigned cart recovery token in all versions up to 2.2.0 (exclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to takeover other user's carts.
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.
CWE-285: Improper Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce < 2.2.0 takes no account at all. Improper authorization means a permission check exists but does not cover the case being exercised, so a caller who is allowed to do one thing is allowed to do a neighbouring thing as well.
A lower-privileged account performs an action reserved for a higher one, which on a multi-author or membership site means an ordinary user reaching administrative behaviour. For Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce the fix is 2.2.0: builds < 2.2.0 are affected, anything from 2.2.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.2.0, 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: Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce 2.2.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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