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CVE-2022-0992

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published4/19/2022

Last Modified4/8/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

siteground:security_optimizer

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-288CWE-306CWE-306

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706302(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-patched-in-siteground-security-plugin/(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e5c6bf7-a653-4571-9566-574d2bb35c4f?source=cve(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2706302(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-patched-in-siteground-security-plugin/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6e5c6bf7-a653-4571-9566-574d2bb35c4f?source=cve(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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