User Verification <= 1.0.93 — Privilege Escalation
CVE-2022-4693Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.0.93Update to 1.0.94 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
User Verification by PickPlugins user-verification
- Affected≤ 1.0.93
- Patched in1.0.94
Update to 1.0.94 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.0.93. Version 1.0.94 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under User Verification by PickPlugins.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 1.0.94, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch User Verification by PickPlugins to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.
The User Verification plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass. This is due to the fact that when generating OTP codes for users to use in order to login, the plugin returns these codes in an AJAX response. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to obtain login codes for administrators.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in User Verification by PickPlugins
All 5| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference <2.0.48Update to 2.0.48 | CVE-2026-14861 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via OTP Verification REST API Endpoint ≤2.0.46Update to 2.0.47 | CVE-2026-7458 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤2.0.45Update to 2.0.46 | CVE-2026-32497 | |
| Critical9.8 | Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover ≤2.0.44Update to 2.0.45 | CVE-2025-12374 |
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference
<2.0.48Update to 2.0.48
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via OTP Verification REST API Endpoint
≤2.0.46Update to 2.0.47
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.0.45Update to 2.0.46
- Critical9.8Authentication Bypass to Account Takeover
≤2.0.44Update to 2.0.45
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.