CVE-2025-6895 (GCVE-0-2025-6895)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-26 04:25 – Updated: 2025-07-28 18:33
VLAI?
Summary
The Melapress Login Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass due to missing authorization within the get_valid_user_based_on_token() function in versions 2.1.0 to 2.1.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers who know an arbitrary user meta value to bypass authentication checks and log in as that user.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
melapress Melapress Login Security Affected: 2.1.0 , ≤ 2.1.1 (semver)
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Credits
Kenneth Dunn
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