CVE-2026-15014: SMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover via 'billing_phone' Parameter
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.88% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 59% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
The SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass leading to Account Takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.7 via the `billing_phone` parameter. This is due to the `processRegistration()` function using a phone-unbound `$_SESSION['sa_mobile_verified']` boolean flag as the sole gate before issuing an authentication cookie — the flag is set to `true` after any successful OTP validation without being bound to the specific phone number that was verified. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to complete OTP verification for a phone number they control, then resubmit the registration request with a victim's `billing_phone` value to have `wp_set_auth_cookie()` called for the resolved victim account, enabling full authentication as any existing WordPress user whose registered phone number is known or guessable, including administrators.
- Published
- Jul 28, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.8% · 59th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-288
Report tools
Action score
39
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.8%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · Wordfence
- 9.8
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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Noroxi analysis
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
cozyvision1 SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery
- up to and including 3.9.7affected · semver
Same product
cozyvision1: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2026-11387SMS Alert <= 3.9.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Password Reset40Plan
- CVE-2026-15671SMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'id' Parameter19Monitor
- CVE-2026-15670SMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'orderby' Parameter19Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- Later →CVE-2026-15673Jul 28, 2026 · SMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'checkout_payment_plans' and 'order_status' Settings17Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Civitasmassfinder
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
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Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
- CVE-2026-156700 days apartSMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'orderby' Parameter19Monitor
- CVE-2026-156710 days apartSMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'id' Parameter19Monitor
- CVE-2026-156730 days apartSMS Alert <= 3.9.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via 'checkout_payment_plans' and 'order_status' Settings17Monitor
Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-0666 · Jul 29, 2026(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-288 · Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or ChannelCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
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- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.6/handler/forms/woocommerce/wc-registration.php#L252
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.6/handler/forms/woocommerce/wc-registration.php#L602
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.6/handler/forms/woocommerce/wc-registration.php#L680
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.9.6/handler/forms/woocommerce/wc-registration.php#L691
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3623914%40sms-alert&new=3623914%40sms-alert
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/661d4ea9-572d-4544-b5cf-39fd69c104a6?source=cve
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.