Unauthenticated account takeover via activation-code type juggling
Published Aug 13, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026
Improper authentication in WPFactory Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce before 3.2.6 allows remote attackers to take over unverified accounts. The verification path loosely compares a decoded public activation-code value with the stored code instead of enforcing matching string types. The target must be a registered account that has not confirmed its email address; successful verification enables takeover through the normal account-access flow.
Summary
What happened
Improper authentication in WPFactory Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce before 3.2.6 allows remote attackers to take over unverified accounts. The verification path loosely compares a decoded public activation-code value with the stored code instead of enforcing matching string types. The target must be a registered account that has not confirmed its email address; successful verification enables takeover through the normal account-access flow.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-14182
- Published
- Aug 13, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 13, 2026
- Vendor
- WPFactory
- Product
- Customer Email Verification for WooCommerce
- Classifications
- CWE-287, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 13, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 13, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.4.0 <3.2.6
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