Login with phone number <= 1.7.49 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Authorization Bypass to Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-6482Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.49Update to 1.7.50 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
OTP Login With Phone Number, OTP Verification login-with-phone-number
- Affected≤ 1.7.49
- Patched in1.7.50
Update to 1.7.50 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.7.49. Version 1.7.50 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 1.7.50, 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 Thanh Nam Tran.
The Login with phone number plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.49. This is due to a lack of validation and missing capability check on user-supplied data in the 'lwp_update_password_action' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update their role to any other role, including Administrator. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 1.7.40. The login with phone number pro plugin was required to exploit the vulnerability in versions 1.7.40 - 1.7.49.
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 high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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