Unauthenticated account takeover via malleable recovery token
Published Jul 16, 2026 · Updated Jul 16, 2026
Authentication bypass in Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce before 6.8.2 allows remote attackers to take over accounts via forged recovery links. The cart-recovery handler decrypts an attacker-controlled AES-CTR token without authenticating its ciphertext or binding the decoded cart ID to the email-specific key, so bit flipping substitutes an enumerable victim cart ID. Exploitation requires an attacker-generated recovery email and a victim abandoned cart; automatic login must be enabled for account takeover, while cart data is exposed without it.
Summary
What happened
Authentication bypass in Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce before 6.8.2 allows remote attackers to take over accounts via forged recovery links. The cart-recovery handler decrypts an attacker-controlled AES-CTR token without authenticating its ciphertext or binding the decoded cart ID to the email-specific key, so bit flipping substitutes an enumerable victim cart ID. Exploitation requires an attacker-generated recovery email and a victim abandoned cart; automatic login must be enabled for account takeover, while cart data is exposed without it.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-12585
- Published
- Jul 16, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 16, 2026
- Vendor
- Tyche Softwares
- Product
- Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce
- Classifications
- CWE-287, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 16, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 16, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <6.8.2
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Public exploit references
- WPScan recovery-token forgery proof of conceptfunctional · validated
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