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CVE-2026-12492: Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce < 2.8 - Unauthenticated Account Takeover via hcotp_auto_login_user
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-07-16 · updated 2026-07-16
- Weakness: CWE-287
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.
Affected products
- Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce: from 1.5 before 2.8 — fixed in 2.8
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Happy Coders OTP Login for WooCommerce 2.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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