CVE-2026-12492 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.8 does not verify that a one-time password was actually validated before authenticating a user based on a supplied identifier, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user, including administrators, as well as to create new accounts.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00149.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/56fdcba6-c7b1-443d-9f9d-b738ecaadabc/

History

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-287
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 9.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.8 does not verify that a one-time password was actually validated before authenticating a user based on a supplied identifier, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as any existing user, including administrators, as well as to create new accounts.
Title		Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce < 2.8 - Unauthenticated Account Takeover via hcotp_auto_login_user
References		https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/56fdcba6-c7b1-443d-9f9d-b738ecaadabc/

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2026-07-16T06:00:03.419Z

Updated: 2026-07-16T15:33:35.211Z

Reserved: 2026-06-17T08:25:07.733Z

Link: CVE-2026-12492

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-07-16T15:26:44.365Z

NVD

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Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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