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MEDIUM 4.3

GHSA-rv89-wch8-c574

Paymenter doesn't reset email verification status after email change

Details

### Summary The email update functionality fails to invalidate the existing verification state when a user changes their email address, allowing a verified account to retain its verified status after switching to an unverified or unowned email address.

### Technical Details When a user updated their email address, the system did not reset or revalidate the associated email verification status. As a result, the verification column remained set to “true” even after the email address was changed.

This allowed an attacker to:

- Verify an account using a legitimate email address - Change the account email to an arbitrary or unowned address - Retain the verified status without re-confirmation of the new email

No verification challenge or confirmation was required for the newly assigned email address.

### Impact This vulnerability allows a user to associate a verified account with an email address they do not control, this may result in:

- Misrepresentation of email ownership - Bypass of verification-based trust assumptions - Potential abuse of features gated behind verified status

No direct unauthorized access to other users accounts or data is possible through this issue alone.

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Affected packages

Packagist / paymenter/paymenter
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.5.0
Fix composer require paymenter/paymenter:^1.5.0

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