CVE-2026-8457

WooCommerce - Social Login <= 2.8.7 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Forged Apple 'id_token' JWT

2026-08-01 11:09
Rafie Muhammad

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 2.8.8
Affected Version<= 2.8.7
CVSS9.8Critical
CVECVE-2026-8457
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Vulnerability Overview

The WooCommerce - Social Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to and including 2.8.7. This is due to the plugin's Apple login handler accepting the Apple id_token and decoding only its base64 payload without verifying the JWT signature against Apple's public keys or validating the issuer, audience, or expiry claims, combined with the security nonce required to invoke the login flow being publicly exposed to unauthenticated users via a localized JavaScript object on the login page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing WordPress user — including administrators — by supplying a forged id_token whose payload contains the target user's email address, as that email is used without any role exclusion to resolve a WordPress account and immediately issue an authenticated session for it.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.8.8, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-289 (Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name) The product performs authentication based on the name of a resource being accessed, or the name of the actor performing the access, but it does not properly check all possible names for that resource or actor.

External References

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CVE-2026-8457: WooCommerce - Social Login <= 2.8.7 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Forged Apple 'id_token' JWT