CVE-2026-12492

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2026-12492 · Published 16/07/2026 · updated 16/07/2026

In short

CVE-2026-12492 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.50%, higher than 42.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
—	No affected product versions are listed for this vulnerability yet.

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.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/56fdcba6-c7b1-443d-9f9d-b738ecaadabc

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