Description

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Omegathemes Grocery Shopping Store grocery-shopping-store allows Password Recovery Exploitation.This issue affects Grocery Shopping Store: from n/a through 1.3.3.

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  "score": "7.1",
  "pubDate": "2026-10-10T08:17:07.180Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-10-10T08:17:07.180Z",
  "executiveSummary": "The Omegathemes Grocery Shopping Store, covering versions from n/a through 1.3.3, contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability identified as an Alternate Path or Channel issue.\nThis flaw specifically resides within the password recovery mechanism, allowing unauthorized entities to circumvent standard authentication controls.\nAn attacker can exploit this vulnerability to reset or gain access to arbitrary user accounts, including administrative accounts, without requiring legitimate credentials or access to the victim's email.\nThe vulnerability poses a severe risk to system integrity and data confidentiality, as it grants full account takeover capabilities.\nNo specific authentication is required to initiate the attack; it can be triggered remotely by leveraging the flawed recovery path.\nSuccessful exploitation bypasses the intended security design, effectively neutralizing identity verification controls.",
  "technicalDetails": "The vulnerability is categorized as CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel, specifically impacting the password recovery workflow in Omegathemes Grocery Shopping Store versions 1.3.3 and earlier.\nThe root cause lies in improper implementation of the password reset logic, where the system fails to adequately validate the authenticity or ownership of the request. The application relies on insecure alternate paths—potentially predictable parameters or predictable URL structures—to finalize a password reset process.\nBy manipulating these alternate channels, an attacker can bypass the intended verification steps that would normally confirm a legitimate reset request, such as time-sensitive tokens, verification codes, or out-of-band email validation.\nThe attack flow typically involves identifying the endpoint responsible for handling password recovery requests. The attacker interacts with this endpoint by supplying target user identifiers (such as usernames or emails) and injecting modified requests designed to exploit the alternate path. Because the underlying code fails to enforce strict server-side validation of the password reset state, the application inadvertently processes the request as verified.\nConsequently, the attacker can force the system to change the victim's password to one of the attacker's choosing or retrieve an authentication token directly. This allows the attacker to gain full session access to the target account. This bypass is highly effective because it operates outside the context of standard authentication mechanisms, rendering session monitoring or traditional brute-force protection ineffective against this specific logic flaw.\nThe exploitation does not require the attacker to have prior knowledge of the victim's current credentials or physical access to the server environment. It can be performed remotely via standard HTTP requests. Post-exploitation, the attacker assumes the identity of the target user, leading to potential unauthorized data access, transaction manipulation, or further escalation of privileges if the target account possesses administrative rights. The failure to maintain a secure, cryptographically sound state-tracking mechanism for the recovery process is the primary failure mode in this product's architecture."
}