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GHSA-5MRQ-972X-QWR6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-04-20 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-05 18:31

Details

The SiteGround Security plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass that allows unauthenticated users to log in as administrative users due to missing identity verification on initial 2FA set-up that allows unauthenticated and unauthorized users to configure 2FA for pending accounts. Upon successful configuration, the attacker is logged in as that user without access to a username/password pair which is the expected first form of authentication. This affects versions up to, and including, 1.2.5.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


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

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  "modified": "2025-05-05T18:31:39Z",
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CVE-2022-0992 (GCVE-0-2022-0992)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-19 20:26 – Updated: 2025-05-05 16:43

Summary

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

Wordfence

References

URL

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	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/critical-a…
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706302

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	siteground	Security Optimizer – The All-In-One WordPress Protection Plugin	Affected: * , ≤ 1.2.5 (semver)

Credits

Chloe Chamberland

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-5MRQ-972X-QWR6

CVE-2022-0992 (GCVE-0-2022-0992)

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