---
title: "CVE-2026-120574: SureCart WordPress Plugin - Authentication Bypass"
description: "SureCart WordPress plugin <= 4.9.5 contains an unauthenticated account takeover caused by insecure passwordless one-time-code login REST route lacking rate limiting and lockout, letting unauthenticated attackers brute-force any user login including administrators."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-120574/
---

# CVE-2026-120574 SureCart WordPress Plugin - Authentication Bypass

SureCart WordPress plugin <= 4.9.5 contains an unauthenticated account takeover caused by insecure passwordless one-time-code login REST route lacking rate limiting and lockout, letting unauthenticated attackers brute-force any user login including administrators.

CVSS base score 8.1 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120574)

## Details

Type

Authentication Bypass

Impact

Privilege Escalation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

3 November 2026

Updated

3 November 2026

Weakness

[CWE-287](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version of SureCart plugin.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120574](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-120574)
- [https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surecart/trunk/app/src/Controllers/Rest/VerificationCodeController.php](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surecart/trunk/app/src/Controllers/Rest/VerificationCodeController.php)
- [https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surecart/trunk/app/src/Models/User.php](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surecart/trunk/app/src/Models/User.php)
- [https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surecart/trunk/app/src/Rest/VerificationCodeRestServiceProvider.php](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/surecart/trunk/app/src/Rest/VerificationCodeRestServiceProvider.php)
- [https://wordpress.org/plugins/surecart/#developers](https://wordpress.org/plugins/surecart/#developers)
- [https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dffdcaa2-5100-48f5-9b82-e22075fd87e5?source=cve](https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dffdcaa2-5100-48f5-9b82-e22075fd87e5?source=cve)

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- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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