Security Optimizer – The All-In-One WordPress Protection Plugin, CVE-2022-0992
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
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Security reports for Security Optimizer – The All-In-One WordPress Protection Plugin
- Published on
- Apr 20, 2022
- Research Description
- 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.
- Affected versions
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Min -, max 1.2.6.
- Status
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vulnerable