Vulnerabilities / reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce / WPSEC-2026-2838
reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce <= 1.4.7 - Unauthenticated CAPTCHA Bypass via WooCommerce Registration Form
Medium 5.3
CWE-693Fixed in 1.5.0
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2838
- Plugin
- reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce (recaptcha-woo)
- Affected
- from 1.4.6 before 1.5.0
- Remediation
- Update to 1.5.0 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-693
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-10
- Attack surface
- reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a CAPTCHA bypass via the WooCommerce registration form in versions 1.4.6 to 1.4.7. This is due to the registration check returning early for any request where XMLRPC_REQUEST is defined, while WooCommerce still processes a registration form posted to xmlrpc.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register customer accounts automatically without solving the reCAPTCHA.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2838/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/recaptcha-woo/tags/1.5.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/recaptcha-woo/
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