Login with phone number <= 1.3.7 — Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2022-0598Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.3.7Update to 1.3.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.5
- CVSS
- 5.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification login-with-phone-number
- Affected≤ 1.3.7
- Patched in1.3.8
Update to 1.3.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.7. Version 1.3.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.3.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Michal Lipinski.
The Login with phone number WordPress plugin through 1.3.7 do not sanitise and escape plugin settings which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
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