# CVE-2026-96901: Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce authentication bypass via unsigned token

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-96901-the-cart-abandonment-recovery-for-woocommerce-wordpress-plugin  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-10-21. Updated: 2026-10-21  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-96901 · Severity: info · Published 2026-10-21

Cart Abandonment Recovery is a WordPress plugin that manages customer shopping carts for WooCommerce e-commerce stores. The plugin before version 2.2.0 fails to properly validate recovery tokens, allowing attackers to modify a customer's abandoned cart record without authentication. This could let attackers unsubscribe customers from recovery emails or add unauthorized discounts to their carts.

Vendors: [WooCommerce](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/woocommerce).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-96901 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-96901 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-96901?** Informational severity, published 21 October 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery before 2.2.0.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-96901?** Yes: fixed in 2.2.0. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2026-96901 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a web application.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-96901?** Check whether you run WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## How to fix

- Fixed in 2.2.0

## Technical details

The plugin accepts unsigned legacy cart-recovery tokens without verifying their integrity, allowing an unauthenticated attacker with knowledge of a victim's cart session identifier to forge tokens and perform unauthorized actions. The vulnerability is an authentication bypass affecting the cart-recovery mechanism that allows modification of abandoned-cart records. A fix is available in version 2.2.0 and later.

## Affected products

- WooCommerce Cart Abandonment Recovery before 2.2.0

## Timeline

- 2026-10-19: disclosed
- 2026-10-21: advisory

## References

- [https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f00e95a2-a5fb-49da-aa6c-8c0279b6df2d/](https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f00e95a2-a5fb-49da-aa6c-8c0279b6df2d/)