CVE-2020-15245: Email verification bypass in Sylius

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In Sylius before versions 1.6.9, 1.7.9 and 1.8.3, the user may register in a shop by email mail@example.com, verify it, change it to the mail another@domain.com and stay verified and enabled. This may lead to having accounts addressed to totally different emails, that were verified. Note, that this way one is not able to take over any existing account (guest or normal one). The issue has been patched in Sylius 1.6.9, 1.7.9 and 1.8.3. As a workaround, you may resolve this issue on your own by creating a custom event listener, which will listen to the sylius.customer.pre_update event. You can determine that email has been changed if customer email and user username are different. They are synchronized later on. Pay attention, to email changing behavior for administrators. You may need to skip this logic for them. In order to achieve this, you should either check master request path info, if it does not contain /admin prefix or adjust event triggered during customer update in the shop. You can find more information on how to customize the event here.

Affected products

Sylius: before 1.6.9; from 1.7.0 before 1.7.9; from 1.8.0 before 1.8.3 — fixed in 1.6.9, 1.7.9, 1.8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Sylius 1.6.9, 1.7.9, 1.8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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